Wayne Yancey quote: "We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (today); we've got to get through (Columbia) first. They've got a good club. We're looking forward to it."

Seems like (when) Ian (Viola) gets out of that first inning - he's been pitching real well.
WAYNE YANCEY

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY

You can love the good in us and hate the bad but the bad is in us too. Without it we wouldn't be us.
RICK YANCEY

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I'm a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to ...
RICK YANCEY

What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vos...
RICK YANCEY

You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice?...
RICK YANCEY

Wir sind hier, und dann sind wir wieder weg, und es geht nich darum, wie viel Zeit wir hier haben, s...
RICK YANCEY

Wie befreit man die Erde von den Menschen? Indem man die Menschen von ihrer Menschlichkeit befreit.
RICK YANCEY

Man kann jemanden nur dann als verrückt bezeichnen, wenn es jemand anderen gibt, der normal ist. Wi...
RICK YANCEY

His heart, the war.

Her face, the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.
RICK YANCEY

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it i...
PHILIP YANCEY

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, s...
PHILIP YANCEY

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the crea...
PHILIP YANCEY

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
PHILIP YANCEY

Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so i...
PHILIP YANCEY

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking a...
RICK YANCEY

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon ...
RICK YANCEY

For a being more advanced than I am, he sure has a hard time answering a simple question
RICK YANCEY

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of G...
PHILIP YANCEY

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I wou...
RICK YANCEY

Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.
RICK YANCEY

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of commun...
RICK YANCEY

How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity.
RICK YANCEY

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your li...
RICK YANCEY

In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Chris...
PHILIP YANCEY

And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and...
RICK YANCEY

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the s...
RICK YANCEY

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, alwa...
PHILIP YANCEY

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background...
RICK YANCEY

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel bra...
RICK YANCEY

They were afraid the longer we pretended to be human, the more human we would become.”
“And...
RICK YANCEY

My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha...
RICK YANCEY

Some things down to the smallest of things, are worth the sum of all things
RICK YANCEY

Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forge...
RICK YANCEY

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end ...
RICK YANCEY

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your han...
PHILIP YANCEY

Like many businesses in the community, the Home Depot maintains a policy of non-solicitation at its ...
YANCEY CASEY

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; an...
RICK YANCEY

He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w...
RICK YANCEY

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought ...
RICK YANCEY

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person a...
PHILIP YANCEY

The way we learn to write is the way we learn to talk: We listen to others and start mimicking speec...
RICK YANCEY

By striving to prove how much they deserve God’s love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospe...
PHILIP YANCEY

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent ...
PHILIP YANCEY

If you leave without me, I’ll just follow you. You can’t stop me, Cassie. How are you going to s...
RICK YANCEY

It's the lady, then," he murmured.
RICK YANCEY

Adolphus is not at his desk. That means he is somewhere in the Monstrumarium, has gone home for the ...
RICK YANCEY

And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime....
RICK YANCEY

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any ot...
RICK YANCEY

You could see the smile coming a year before it arrived.
RICK YANCEY

Please, do not leave me, Will Henry. I would not survive it. You were nearly right. What Mr. Kendall...
RICK YANCEY

Have you fallen in love, Will Henry?"

"That's stupid."

"What is? Love, or my ...
RICK YANCEY

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot...
RICK YANCEY

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie d...
RICK YANCEY

He knew the truth. Yes, my dear child, he would undoubtedly tell a terrified toddler tremulou...
RICK YANCEY

As long as you draw breath anywhere -here or ten thousands miles from here- I will love you. I can't...
RICK YANCEY

I am drowning in an infinite sea.
RICK YANCEY

But I don’t panic. I don’t bolt like a frightened gazelle. I am more than the sum of my fear. It...
RICK YANCEY

We're still a strong presence in the community and a great source for not only do-it-yourself needs ...
YANCEY CASEY

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.
RICK YANCEY

God doesn't call the equipped, son. God equips the called. And you have been called.
RICK YANCEY

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with...
RICK YANCEY

It wasn't a good fake smile. You could always tell when she was faking, because she didn't look frie...
RICK YANCEY

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton an...
PHILIP YANCEY

And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchli...
RICK YANCEY

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own ch...
RICK YANCEY

Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practical...
RICK YANCEY

I’m about to pee myself with relief that we’re all alive, but mostly because he is.

H...
RICK YANCEY

Cassie?”
It’s Sammy, holding on to Ben, because he’s feeling the Ben thing a little more ...
RICK YANCEY

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer Dav...
PHILIP YANCEY

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it....
PHILIP YANCEY

God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
PHILIP YANCEY

Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”
Zombie?
“Where are you taking him?” B...
RICK YANCEY

Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gos...
PHILIP YANCEY

His body is pressed against my back, his arm is wrapped protectively around my waist, his breath a d...
RICK YANCEY

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most ...
PHILIP YANCEY

You’re the mayfly,' he murmurs.
And then Evan Walker kisses me.
Holding my hand across...
RICK YANCEY

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt a...
PHILIP YANCEY

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme myste...
PHILIP YANCEY

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.
RICK YANCEY

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be ...
PHILIP YANCEY

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up wi...
RICK YANCEY

There are things that are too terrible to remember, and there are things that are almost too wonderf...
RICK YANCEY

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a consci...
YANCEY LITTLE

The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father’s study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern k...
RICK YANCEY

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eye...
RICK YANCEY

Do you believe in God, Evan?”
“Sure I do.”
“I don’t. I mean, I don’t know. I d...
RICK YANCEY

His other hand finds my cheek, and he wipes away my tears with his thumb. The chocolate scent overwh...
RICK YANCEY

That's it," he said bitterly. "Cry, Cassie. Cry for her. Cry for all the children. They can't hear y...
RICK YANCEY

I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the T...
RICK YANCEY

He stiffened and said with great dignity, "I am a natural scientist. We are accustomed to dealing wi...
RICK YANCEY

Just because a man is a homicidal maniac doesn't make him wrong.
RICK YANCEY

I'd walk right up to him and blow his brains out.
RICK YANCEY

Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I...
RICK YANCEY

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
RICK YANCEY

I should have asked, I guess,” he says. “I shouldn’t have assumed.”
“What?”
He...
RICK YANCEY

A moment comes in war when the last lines must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold a f...
RICK YANCEY

The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.
Why didn't he finish her? RICK YANCEY

I’ll do whatever you say, Cassie,” he says helplessly. His eyes shine brighter than the stars ov...
RICK YANCEY

Dislodged cobwebs and dust swirled around them. The ceiling was holding for now. He doubted it could...
RICK YANCEY

Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.
RICK YANCEY

Aren’t you coming with us?”
I feel his hand on my cheek. I know what this means and I slap ...
RICK YANCEY

Let’s establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you’d like to ...
RICK YANCEY

He knocks once against the side. I don’t get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let’s estab...
RICK YANCEY

We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (today); we've got to get through (Columbia) first. They've got a good club. We're looking forward to it.

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Wayne Yancey

We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (today); we've got to get through (Columbia) first. They've got a good club. We're looking forward to it.

Wayne Yancey

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