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He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.


Rick Yancey

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PHILIP YANCEY Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
PHILIP YANCEY the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau...
PHILIP YANCEY Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not...
PHILIP YANCEY As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me...
PHILIP YANCEY Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at...
PHILIP YANCEY As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ...
PHILIP YANCEY I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ...
PHILIP YANCEY We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the othe...
FRED YANCEY We knew we had to contain Thompson's quarterback. They gave us a great effort defensively.
FRED YANCEY This was a big win for us. I thought our kids did a great job playing wire-to-wire and working their...
FRED YANCEY Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He...
PHILIP YANCEY I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference.
JANAY YANCEY I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball.
JANAY YANCEY I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie...
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 Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
PHILIP 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 Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.
RICK WARREN I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues...
RICK DERRINGER If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already hav...
RICK PERRY And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting st...
RICK PERRY It's not easy. I got lots of rejections when I first started out. If you want to write, you have...
RICK RIORDAN All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of...
RICK RIORDAN During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. ...
RICK WARREN Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
RICK WARREN You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.
RICK WARREN Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others a...
RICK SMOLAN The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi...
RICK PERRY As hurricanes Katrina and Rita raged through the southeastern United States last summer, much of Ame...
RICK RENZI Tackle the difficult things first in the morning; make changes in the way you network. Treat everyon...
RICK PITINO Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect...
RICK MOODY In between 15 and 20 - probably at around 17 - my interests switched from hard rock to punk rock. An...
RICK RUBIN We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit;...
RICK PERRY I've done drives through Budapest and Oslo and used to drive to Sardinia, too, which is quite a ...
RICK ASTLEY This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel...
RICK MORANIS I have forty-six cookbooks. I have sixty-eight takeout menus from four restaurants. I have one hundr...
RICK MORANIS