Top 100 Yancey Quotes
#1. God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 - Philip Yancey
Lisa Harper
#2. Yancey crawled from her tangled bed one morning and assembled her long limbs and sharp bones into something as exotic and seductive to the eye as a peacock or a griffin or a unicorn.
Anne Rivers Siddons
#3. Even as a child, Alma innately comprehended that there were two types of silent men in the world: one type was meek and deferential; the other type was Dick Yancey. His eyes were a pair of slowly circling sharks, and as he stared at Alma now, those eyes were clearly saying: "Bring the rum.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#4. In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.
Alexis Korner
#5. Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
Philip Yancey
#6. In her dream, a large owl perches outside the window, staring at her through the glass with huge, white-rimmed eyes.
Rick Yancey
#7. Do you know why our race is doomed, Pellinore? Because it has fallen in love with the pleasant fiction that we are somehow above the very rules that we have determined govern everything else.
Rick Yancey
#8. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
Philip Yancey
#9. We - can't go back in time and change anything. If you went back in time and killed your grandfather before you were born, then you wouldn't be able to go back in time to kill your grandfather.
Rick Yancey
#10. Private Zombie, you have two seconds, exactly two seconds, to seal that sewer pipe posing as a mouth,
Rick Yancey
#11. Killing humans - isn't that the aliens' job?
Rick Yancey
#12. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!
Rick Yancey
#13. There's nothing fated in our stars. No meant-to-be in any of it. We are accidental people occupying an accidental planet in an accidental universe. And that's okay. These seven billion billion atoms are good with that.
Rick Yancey
#14. The thing about killing is you don't know if you can actually do it until you actually do it.
Rick Yancey
#15. When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.
Philip Yancey
#16. I am a scientist, and therefore an absolute realist.
Rick Yancey
#17. Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.
Philip Yancey
#18. I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Philip Yancey
#19. His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.
Rick Yancey
#20. Like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. so you put all your doubts in a little box and then try to forget where you buried it. -Cassie
Rick Yancey
#21. There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out.
Rick Yancey
#22. So, I thought, this is how dead people see the world.
Rick Yancey
#23. Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting!
Rick Yancey
#24. The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
Philip Yancey
#25. For the gazelle, fear of being eaten. For the lion, fear of starvation. Fear is the chain that binds them together.
Rick Yancey
#26. More important by far is that one be honest with oneself. I have always been, and it has cost me dearly. Nothing matters but the truth. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of it, no matter where it hides. That is the heart of science, Will Henry, the true monster we pursue.
Rick Yancey
#27. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
Philip Yancey
#28. The one sure way of not being alone was wanting to be alone.
Rick Yancey
#29. People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.
Philip Yancey
#30. clinging to modesty in the age of the Others is like sacrificing a goat to make it rain.
Rick Yancey
#31. We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel
Philip Yancey
#32. A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.
Rick Yancey
#33. A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
Philip Yancey
#34. Dad the launching pad. Dad the landing zone. Dad the tether that kept Sams - and me - from hurtling into the nullity of deep space, a nullity himself now.
Rick Yancey
#35. God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
Rick Yancey
#36. I couldn't outrun them. I couldn't outgun them. Maybe I could outsmart them.
Rick Yancey
#37. Though I understand the theology behind it, the image does not bring me peace; it makes me feel sorry for the lion. It strips him of his essence, the fundamental part of his being. A lion that does not behave as a lion i snot a lion. It isn't even the lion's opposite. It's a mockery of a lion.
Rick Yancey
#38. He would bear any burden, endure any hardship, suffer any torment if that suffering added a single moment to her life.
Rick Yancey
#40. It's what we're made for. It's what got us here. It's the reason I have this car to hide under. We are human. And humans thin. They plan. They dream, and they make the dream real.
Rick Yancey
#41. If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
Philip Yancey
#42. saw he had not been scraping at an exposed rib. He had been cleaning the thing's teeth.
Rick Yancey
#43. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.
Rick Yancey
#44. She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all
Rick Yancey
#45. One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
Rick Yancey
#46. He leans forward and kisses me hard on the mouth.
"Don't ever do that again," I tell him.
"Why? Because you liked it or because you didn't?"
"Both.
Rick Yancey
#47. I've always thought, if heaven is such a wonderful place, why is entering it so absurdly easy? Confess your sins, ask forgiveness - and that is all? No matter what your crimes?
Rick Yancey
#48. You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.
Rick Yancey
#49. Im a shark cassie, a shark who dreamed he was a man
Rick Yancey
#50. The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The
Philip Yancey
#52. Because promises matter. They matter now more than ever.
Rick Yancey
#53. We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
Philip Yancey
#54. Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
Philip Yancey
#55. The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
Philip Yancey
#56. That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.
Rick Yancey
#57. With the right training, there are few things more savage than a ten-year-old.
Rick Yancey
#58. What happens when the sowers of mistrust become its reapers?
Rick Yancey
#59. In case you don't know, we live on a restless planet. The
Rick Yancey
#60. The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
Philip Yancey
#61. in the end we're all still searching for a Kingdom that is not of this world, how we are so desperate to be known, to be called.
Preston Yancey
#62. The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
#63. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.
Philip Yancey
#64. We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.
Rick Yancey
#65. Single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.
Rick Yancey
#66. Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
Philip Yancey
#67. Private Zombie is Squad Fifty-three's very own catcher in the fucking rye. Private Zombie, I think I have a crush on you. You make me weak in the knees. You make me hate my own mother for giving birth to a male child, so now it's impossible for me to have your babies.
Rick Yancey
#68. The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?
Philip Yancey
#69. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.
Rick Yancey
#70. I'm a disease. That's what I am to you.
Rick Yancey
#71. For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.
Rick Yancey
#72. Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor.
Rick Yancey
#73. Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.
Rick Yancey
#74. I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus?
Rick Yancey
#75. You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.
Rick Yancey
#76. Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. - Mahatma Gandhi
Philip Yancey
#77. We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
Philip Yancey
#78. Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of watching a movie with the total immersion you feel when you're inside a good book. And I had some success as a screenwriter before I began writing books.
Rick Yancey
#79. The boy who never sleeps, sleeping. Coming to rest upon the Cassiopeian shore, an island in the middle of a sea of blood. You have your promise, and I have you.
Rick Yancey
#80. 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.2
Philip Yancey
#81. the silence of the void, as if the world stopped breathing and
Rick Yancey
#82. Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
Philip Yancey
#84. But I think he knew in the end it wouldn't be the lucky ones left standing. It would be the hardcore. The ones who tell Lady Luck to go screw herself. The ones with hearts of stone.
Rick Yancey
#85. People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
Philip Yancey
#86. The world will burn for years. It will burn until I'm my father's age - if I live that long.
Rick Yancey
#87. one out of every three surviving human beings on Earth is one of them.
Rick Yancey
#88. As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't help loving you, so I choose to hate you ... to make my love bearable.
Rick Yancey
#89. Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
Philip Yancey
#90. The world begins again. Humanity owes its existence to a bit of cosmic whimsy. To a rock. It
Rick Yancey
#91. Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers
Philip Yancey
#92. reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs
Rick Yancey
#93. God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
Philip Yancey
#94. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
Philip Yancey
#95. There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.
Rick Yancey
#96. Beautiful is another word we tossed around too casually, slopping it over everything from cars to nail polish until the word collapsed under the weight of all the banality. But the world is beautiful. I hope they never forget that. The world is beautiful.
Rick Yancey
#97. Love may be nothing more than a complex interaction of hormones, conditioned behavior, and positive reinforcement, but try writing a poem or song about that.
Rick Yancey
#98. I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
Philip Yancey
#99. When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
Philip Yancey
#100. The world was ripping apart. And pieces of the wreckage were raining all around me.
Rick Yancey
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