"Prayer is not a means of removing the……" — Philip Yancey
"Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives."
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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey
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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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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.
— David Attenborough
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality…
— Paul Auster
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the…
— Irving Babbitt
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
— Michelle Bachelet
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I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because…
— Erykah Badu
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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
— Luis Barragan
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
— Bruce Barton
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
— William Bernbach
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt…
— Joseph Addison
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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