{"author":"Philip Yancey","author_id":"Philip+Yancey","total_quotes":59,"quotes":[{"text":"Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to band together with a strange menagerie because of a common bond in Jesus Christ. I have found that such a community more resembles a family than any other human institution. Henri Nouwen once defined a community as “a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church: Why Bother?).","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["christian-living","church","faith","family"],"id":1334,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["misunderstanding","understanding"],"id":18253,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["prayer","religion"],"id":34802,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["grace"],"id":53473,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"Homeless people bear God's image too.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["serving-god","spirituality"],"id":58402,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["activism"],"id":59307,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["christianity","service"],"id":72773,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80).","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["faith","grace","mystery"],"id":78864,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, 'I LOVE YOU.' Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["cross","justice","pain","suffering"],"id":92374,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"},{"text":"No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.","author":"Philip Yancey","tags":["jesus"],"id":93760,"author_id":"Philip+Yancey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}