Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.”
“Wounded people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them.”
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“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep,” advised the apostle Paul (Romans 12:15), wise words that apply especially in times of crisis.”
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“I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.”
“In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word “long-suffering.” We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.”
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“forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.”
“a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.”
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“Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.”
“a hope for healing should be presented realistically. It is just that — a “hope,” not a guarantee. If it comes, a joyous miracle has happened. If it doesn’t come, God has not let you down.”
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“Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.”
“what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to “out-grace” its rivals.”
“Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be,”
“In the study of scientific atheism, there was the idea that religion divides people. Now we see the opposite: love for God can only unite.”
“Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.”
“Lord, if you can’t make me thin, then make my friends look fat,” humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.”
“God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.”
“Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” At the center of the Lord’s Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.”
“Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.”
“Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.”
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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.