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Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?


Philip Yancey

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JANAY YANCEY It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin...
JANAY YANCEY I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ...
JANAY YANCEY But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin...
RICK YANCEY Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
RICK YANCEY The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca...
RICK YANCEY Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under...
RICK YANCEY Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'...
RICK YANCEY That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t...
WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he...
RICK YANCEY Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?
RICK YANCEY She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc...
RICK YANCEY If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
RICK YANCEY Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY