Man kann jemanden nur dann als verrückt bezeichnen, wenn es jemand anderen gibt, der normal ist. Wie gut uns böse. Wenn alles gut wäre, dann wäre nichts gut.


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RICK 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
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
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP 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
You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of G...
PHILIP YANCEY
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Chris...
PHILIP YANCEY
Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, alwa...
PHILIP YANCEY
Seems like (when) Ian (Viola) gets out of that first inning - he's been pitching real well.
WAYNE 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
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
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
We're still a strong presence in the community and a great source for not only do-it-yourself needs ...
YANCEY CASEY
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton an...
PHILIP 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
Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gos...
PHILIP YANCEY
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most ...
PHILIP 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
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be ...
PHILIP 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
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model ...
PHILIP YANCEY
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
PHILIP YANCEY
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'...
PHILIP YANCEY
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian p...
PHILIP YANCEY
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. ...
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