I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference.


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When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.
RICK YANCEY
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral th...
RICK YANCEY
No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child...
RICK YANCEY
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to g...
RICK 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
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear...
RICK YANCEY
Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He...
PHILIP YANCEY
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We hav...
RICK YANCEY
People die. Love endures.
RICK YANCEY
And I open to him, a flower to the rain.
RICK YANCEY
You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."

Best les...
RICK 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
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
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