"Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden……" — Philip Yancey
"Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism."
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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey has 157 quotes on this site.
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know…
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important…
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Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing…
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses…
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life…
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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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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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once…
— Kevin Bacon
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
— Abu Bakr
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
— Edward Abbey
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When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.…
— Joe Biden
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
— Aesop
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
— Aesop
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is…
— Samuel Butler
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We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.
— Eric Cantona
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