Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“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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“The earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea,”
“To a woman shamed by an embarrassing malady, to a social outcast with leprosy, to a thief hanging on a cross hours from death, to a common prostitute — to all these people and many more he held out the bright promise that significance is not something attained but rather bestowed by a gracious God. And thus we who follow Jesus should treat those who rank low on society’s scale — “the least of these,” in Jesus’ phrase — as he did, proclaiming by our deeds what we believe about the image of God in every person.”
“¿Hay siempre fe cuando se produce un gran número de milagros?”
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“A God wise enough to rule the universe is wise enough to watch over his child Job, regardless of how things seem in the bleakest moments.”
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“If I had to summarize the primary New Testament motivation for “being good” in one word, I would choose gratitude.”
“I’ve yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.”
“To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion,”
“If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?”
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“On the one hand God passionately loved the people he had made; on the other hand, God had a terrible urge to destroy the evil that enslaved them. On the cross, God resolved that inner conflict, for there God’s Son absorbed the destructive force and transformed it into love.”
“Democracy requires us to recognize others’ rights even when we fundamentally disagree with them.”
“Consider earth, our home. Let your eyes savor the brilliant hues and delicate shadings of a summer sunset. Tunnel your toes into wet sand, stand still, and feel the dependable foam and spray of an ocean tide. Visit a butterfly garden and study the abstract designs: 10,000 variations, more imaginative than those of any abstract painter, all compressed into tiny swatches of flying fabric. Belief in a loving Creator is easy among these good things.”
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“En nuestro interior existe una especie de juicio instintivo, según el cual la vida debería ser justa, y de alguna manera, Dios debería estar «haciendo mejor su trabajo” de gobernar este mundo.”
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“God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served. Six times in the Gospels Jesus iterated the deeper truth that we succeed not by acquiring more and more but by “losing” life through service to God and others.”
“Cada vez que nos aferramos tenazmente a Dios en un momento de dificultad, o sencillamente cada vez que oramos, es posible que esté sucediendo más, mucho más de lo que habríamos podido soñar jamás.”
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“Yet the sun that lavishes dusk with color can also bake African soil into a dry, cracked glaze, dooming millions. The rhythmic, pounding surf can, if fomented by a storm, crash in as a twenty-foot wall of death, obliterating coastal villages. And the harmless swatches of color fluttering among wildflowers survive on average two weeks before succumbing to the grim ferocity of nature’s food chain. Nature is our fallen sister, not our mother. And earth, though God’s showplace, is a good creation that has been bent.”
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“do worry about the recent tendency for the labels “evangelical Christian” and “religious right” to become interchangeable. Increasingly Christians are perceived as rigid moralists who want to control others’ lives.”
“The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world…. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.”
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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.