Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud QUOTES

2 " Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

4 " One bold message in the Book of Job is that you can say anything to God. Throw at him your grief, your anger, your doubt, your bitterness, your betrayal, your disappointment—he can absorb them all. As often as not, spiritual giants of the Bible are shown contending with God. They prefer to go away limping, like Jacob, rather than to shut God out. In this respect, the Bible prefigures a tenet of modern psychology: you can’t really deny your feelings or make them disappear, so you might as well express them. God can deal with every human response save one. He cannot abide the response I fall back on instinctively: an attempt to ignore him or treat him as though he does not exist. That response never once occurred to Job. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

6 " 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 , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

8 " But what if I create a universe that is free, free even of me? What if I veil My Divinity so that the creatures are free to pursue their individual lives without being overwhelmed by My overpowering Presence? Will the creatures love Me? Can I be loved by creatures whom I have not programmed to adore me forever? Can love arise out of freedom? My angels love me unceasingly, but they can see Me at all times. What if I create beings in My own image as a Creator, beings who are free? But "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

10 " Los seres humanos crecemos al luchar, trabajar y extendernos; en cierto sentido, la naturaleza humana tiene más necesidad de problemas que de soluciones. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

12 " A lo largo de toda la Biblia, en especial en los libros de los profetas, vemos a Dios debatirse en un conflicto interno. Por una parte, amaba apasionadamente a las personas que había creado; por otra, sentía el terrible impulso de destruir al Mal que la esclavizaba. En la cruz, Dios resolvió ese conflicto interno, porque en ella su Hijo absorbió la fuerza destructiva para transformarla en amor. Citas "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

14 " ¿Hay siempre fe cuando se produce un gran número de milagros? "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

16 " We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

18 " Some people find no comfort in the prophets’ vision of a future world. “The church has used that line for centuries to justify slavery, oppression, and all manner of injustice,” they say. The criticism sticks because the church has abused the prophets’ vision. But you will never find that “pie in the sky” rationale in the prophets themselves. They have scathing words about the need to care for widows and orphans and aliens, and to clean up corrupt courts and religious systems. The
people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

20 " La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado. "

― Philip Yancey , Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud