"When suffering happens, it forces us to confront……" — Philip Yancey
"When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do."
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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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those…
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both…
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
— Bjork
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In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a…
— Tony Blair
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Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will…
— David Bowie
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth.…
— George W. Bush
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I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
— Hugo Chavez
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The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this…
— Hillary Clinton
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Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they…
— Pedro Almodovar
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We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according…
— Maya Angelou
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