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The Bible Jesus Read QUOTES

The Bible Jesus Read QUOTES

1 " Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

2 " the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

3 " Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

4 " God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

5 " As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

6 " Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

7 " In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

8 " never live as though God does not exist.” Or, stated positively, “Always live in awareness of God’s existence. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

9 " G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

10 " Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind—these are all a drive toward [loving the One] who rings our heart like a bell. —ABRAHAM HESCHEL "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

11 " I am forced to reexamine. Thomas Merton’s words about the Bible in general apply to the Old Testament in particular: There is, in a word, nothing comfortable about the Bible—until we manage to get so used to it that we make it comfortable for ourselves… Have we ceased to question the book and be questioned by it? Have we ceased to fight it? Then perhaps our reading is no longer serious. For most people, the understanding of the Bible is, and should be, a struggle: not merely to find meanings that can be looked up in books of reference, but to come to terms personally with the stark scandal and contradiction in the Bible itself… Let us not be too sure we know the Bible just because we have learned not to be astonished at it, just because we have learned not to have problems with it. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

12 " We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

13 " They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

14 " we persevere because we believe rewards will come. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

15 " Oswald Chambers once said that the Psalms teach you how to pray; Job teaches you how to suffer; the Song of Solomon teaches you how to love; Proverbs teaches you how to live; and Ecclesiastes teaches you how to enjoy. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

16 " La fidelidad implica aprender a confiar que, más allá del perímetro de la oscuridad, Dios aún reina y no nos ha abandonado, no importa lo que parezca. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

17 " «¿Cuál es el significado de la vida?», le preguntó el estudiante al rabino. El rabino respondió: «Esa es una pregunta maravillosa, ¿por qué la quiere cambiar por una respuesta?» "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

18 " At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours...Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since). "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

19 " La única sabiduría que podemos esperar adquirir es la sabiduría de la humildad. La humildad no tiene límite. —T. S. ELLIOT "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read

20 " La pregunta final estuvo preocupando a los judíos por siglos después que Malaquías y los otros profetas desaparecieron de la escena. No veían milagros, ni intervenciones espectaculares, y no habían escuchado nuevos mensajes del Señor. ¿Se había olvidado Dios de ser misericordioso? ¿Se había tapado los oídos a sus gemidos? El Antiguo Testamento termina con una nota de desilusión, anhelos no cumplidos, y remota esperanza. "

― Philip Yancey , The Bible Jesus Read