"The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends,……" — Philip Yancey
"The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it."
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Philip Yancey
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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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More Descends Quotes
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world,…
— James Cameron
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do,…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
— Jerome Bruner
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The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching…
— George Gissing
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Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Buddha says: Remember, you have to do much, but the ultimate always happens when you are not doing anything. It…
— Rajneesh
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When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or…
— Rajneesh
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No individual can ultimately fail. The Divinity which descends into humanity is bound to re-gain its original state.
— Nilakanta Sri Ram
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When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a…
— Milarepa
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With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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