Desperation Quote by Philip Yancey Download Open image “Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near” — Philip Yancey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desperation Draws Heaven Humans Kingdom of heaven Kingdoms
The Kingdom of Heaven is not for the well-meaning: it is for the desperate. — James Denney Copy Share Image
Desperation and defeat does not dwell in the hearts and minds of those who know and believe that God's got it. — Gale C Adams Copy Share Image
“Those who seek the kingdom of heaven find it, those who deserve it receive it, but those who don't are trapped in endless desires.” — Nasr Copy Share Image
Desperation sells you to weak people that use weaker people. Exercise patience and faith along with Gods timing. — Marala Scott Copy Share Image
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we… — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
If you are weakened by the pains of hunger and poverty, with no money in your pockets, and no one will give you any… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the people who populate our planet live lives of quiet desperation that are all too often quite harsh and painful,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group:… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor. — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
“The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures,… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image