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Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey
American Author
Born: 1949
God Good Love People Prayer You
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. Philip Yancey
Love Faith Important Christian Reconciliation About Individuals Families Being Loved Transform Foundational Christian Faith Things Basically
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. Philip Yancey
God Good Gratitude Bible Book Good Things World Treat Gift Every Earth Way Recognition Recognize See Above Came Intended Psalms Where Which Them Created Things Designer Treated
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. Philip Yancey
God Confusion Mysterious Outrage Feel Happen Even Things Things Happen
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body. Philip Yancey
Today News Culture Stars Dancing Dancing With The Stars One Thing About Paris Paris Hilton New Hilton Another Tiger Tiger Woods Lindsay Lindsay Lohan Hear Celebrity Celebrity Culture Sisters Woods After Turn Turn-On Body Kate Thing
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents. Philip Yancey
Parents Stand Awe
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood. Philip Yancey
Life Christian Parallels Parenthood Aspect Many Servant Christian Life
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Philip Yancey
Good Higher Toward New Testament Motives New Testament Being Upward Us
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not. Philip Yancey
Nation Live Living Christian Heritage Muslims Observers Between Most Accepts Understand Cultural Model Committed Difference Happens Who Jesus
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.' Philip Yancey
God Me Prayer Shopping Setting Consider Way Out List Much Requests Company Keeping
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love. Philip Yancey
Love God Compassion Mercy Come Know
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite. Philip Yancey
Faith You Together Church Other Risk Lifeline Casually No-One Advantage Arrested Opposite Imprisoned Privilege Getting Quite Where Anything China Social Your Christians
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! Philip Yancey
Prayer Try Unqualified About Write Qualified Person Ironically Represent Being Ordinary Which Ordinary Person Means Pew
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence. Philip Yancey
Evil Ways Some Proof Existence Gods
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met. Philip Yancey
Today Me People Writing Words Met Changed Hundred Hundred Years About Powerful Greatest Years Greatest Things Just Just As Much Much Profession Tolstoy Lived Actually Things

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