Aspect Quote by Philip Yancey Download Open image “The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.” — Philip Yancey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aspect Christian Christian life Life Parallels Parallels Parenthood Parenthood Sacrifice Sacrificing Self Self Sacrificing Servant
It is important that parents pour out their love self-sacrificially for their children, which includes practicing what they preach, i.e. living in the love… — Joseph Pearce Copy Share Image
“For the Christian, parental authority does not come from God placing us over our children. It comes from God having given us the responsibility… — Greg and Lisa Popcak Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the loaded question is: How often is maternal self-sacrifice really only masochistic martyrdom, destructive to the mother and destructive to the child as… — Natalie Shainess Copy Share Image
“A Christian understanding of the world sees a child's character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission"… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Bottom line, parenting is long, hard, heart work. It is an intense, loving labor of soul. It is a rigorous experience in sacrificial, selfless… — Cary Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Motherhood is both a beautiful dance and a brutally gut-wrenching exercise in self- control. As much as we want to jump in and solve… — Kate Battistelli Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving, and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation. — L. Tom Perry 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
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
It is according to the shapes that I lay the plans for victory, but the multitude does not comprehend this. Although everyone can see… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I believe that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including… — Gabrielle Bernstein Copy Share Image
There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Some say that you should not want money at all because the desire for money is materialistic and not Spiritual. But we want you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I didnt like the Survivor shows because of the mean-spirited aspect, and women certainly were part of whatever conflict they would create. — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image