"Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of……" — Philip Yancey

"Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world."

— 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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An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to… — John Ashcroft
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I… — Jensen Ackles
The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which… — Michele Bachmann
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell… — Henry Adams
Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat… — Roseanne Barr
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
Satan works through human agents. — Ezra Taft Benson
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do… — David Bowie
Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their… — Danny Boyle
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. — David Byrne

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