"Parents learn the uses of power and its……" — Philip Yancey
"Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love."
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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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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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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It…
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It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real…
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Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the…
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Bad attitudes will ruin your team.
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Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's…
— Jo Brand
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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Pray that you will have good and correct attitudes about all your experiences - be they good or bad.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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God does not want you to become a God; he wants you to become godly - taking on his values,…
— Rick Warren
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Attitudes determine our actions, for good or bad.
— Dwight L. Moody
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Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According…
— Alice Miller
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the…
— Stephen Covey
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