"Pleasure represents a great good but also a…" — Philip Yancey

"Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger."

— Philip Yancey

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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey has 157 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know…
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important…
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing…
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses…
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life…
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;… — Aristotle
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
Crying wolf is a real danger. — David Attenborough
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. — James A. Baldwin
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man… — John Adams
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably… — Drew Barrymore
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I… — Clara Barton
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
The most dangerous people are the ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the… — Kate Adie

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