"Whatever else we may say about it, the……" — Philip Yancey
"Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt."
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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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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
— Lord Byron
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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His…
— J C Ryle
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There are some who believe that because they have made mistakes, they can no longer fully partake of the blessings…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That…
— A C Dixon
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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents,…
— H.G. Wells
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People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
— Thomas Perez
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I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am so profoundly grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ, for a testimony of the Atonement of the Savior.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The plan of salvation could not be brought about without an atonement... The atoning sacrifice had to be carried out…
— C. Scott Grow
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The Atonement of Christ is the most transcendental event that has ever occurred or that will ever occur, since the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions…
— Jean-Marie Le Pen
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