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People Quotes by Philip Yancey
- O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
- God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that…
- Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should…
- The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they…
- True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
- One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need…
- I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with a direct answer…
- People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
- Homeless people bear God's image too.
- When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish…
- Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed…
- Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
- I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the…
- God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
- Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in…
- As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God…
- Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature,…
- The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a…
- One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years…
- People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
- People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle