Philip Yancey - Disappointment with God (1988)

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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Philip Yancey

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Philip Yancey

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

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If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

Philip Yancey

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.

Philip Yancey