"In the move The Last Emperor, the young……" — Philip Yancey
"In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand eunuch servants at his command. "What happens when you do wrong?" his brother asks. "When I do wrong, someone else is punished," the boy emperor replies. To demonstrate, he breaks a jar, and one of the servants is beaten. In Christian theology, Jesus reversed that ancient pattern: when the servants erred, the King was punished. Grace is free only because the giver himself has borned the cost."
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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
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O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
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