Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.”
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“the best way to prepare for suffering is to work on a strong, supportive life when you’re healthy.”
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“We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God’s followers are called to be part of the solution.”
“As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.”
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“When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.”
“Pain allows us, the fortunate ones at least, to lead free and active lives. If you ever doubt that, visit a leprosarium and observe for yourself a world without pain.”
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“As Christ’s body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God’s consistent movement in all history.”
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“Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.”
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“God does some of God’s best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.”
“Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you’ve forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.”
“Dios contra mí? ¿Por qué parece estar tan distante? Cuando leemos la historia de Job, podemos ver al otro lado del velo una competencia librada en el mundo invisible. En cambio, cuando se trata de nuestras propias pruebas, no vemos nada de esto. Cuando nos golpee la tragedia, viviremos en las sombras, sin tener conciencia de lo que está sucediendo en el mundo invisible. El drama por el que pasó Job se repetirá entonces en nuestra propia vida personal. Una vez más, Dios permitirá que su reputación dependa de la reacción de seres humanos inconstantes.”
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“Let him who is about to accuse God consider the greatness of the God accused.”
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“Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. "God is wild, you know," he wrote. "We're not in charge.”
“Lest I sound like a cranky moralist, I should say that to me the real question is not why modern secularists oppose traditional morality; it is on what basis they defend any morality.”
“Knowledge is passive, intellectual; suffering is active, personal. No intellectual answer will solve suffering. Perhaps this is why God sent his own Son as one response to human pain, to experience it and absorb it into himself.”
“Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.”
“It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.”
“one East European Christian observed, “You Western Christians often seem to consider material prosperity to be the only sign of God’s blessing. On the other hand, you often seem to perceive poverty, discomfort, and suffering as signs of God’s disfavor. In some ways we in the East understand suffering from the opposite perspective. We believe that suffering may be a sign of God’s favor and trust in the Christians to whom the trial is permitted to come.”
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“As Paul Tournier said, “Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.”
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Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine--a sister publication of Christianity Today directed towards high school and college students--where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.