"The promise of pleasures so alluring that we……" — Philip Yancey
"The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy."
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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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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
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The mind creates so many temptations - so alluring they are, so magnetic is their power - that unless you…
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Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your…
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring…
— Albert Einstein
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One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful…
— Philip J. Davis
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The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and…
— Dwight Garner
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To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
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A good woman must constantly resist alluring and deceptive messages from many sources telling her that she is entitled to…
— Julie B. Beck
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Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they…
— Judith Wright
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I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent…
— Gautama Buddha
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