“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
Origine: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
Philip Yancey è un giornalista, scrittore e educatore statunitense.
Giornalista e scrittore religioso, i suoi libri hanno avuto tirature superiori ai 14 milioni di libri in tutto il mondo, rendendolo uno dei più venduti autori del cristianesimo protestante. Ha ricevuto inoltre diversi premi letterari e religiosi.Yancey è stato per molti anni uno dei principali giornalisti della rivista Christianity Today e ha scritto articoli per Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife. Attualmente vive in Colorado, è membro del Comitato direttivo di Christianity Today e del Consiglio editoriale di Books & Culture, altra rivista affiliata a Christianity Today. Inoltre viaggia spesso svolgendo un'attività internazionale di oratore e conferenziere.
Wikipedia
“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
Origine: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
Variante: Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Origine: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.”
Origine: What's So Amazing About Grace?
Origine: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”
Origine: What's So Amazing About Grace?
“I would far rather convey grace than explain it.”
Origine: What's So Amazing About Grace?
“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”
Origine: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
“Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.”
Origine: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
“Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”
Origine: What's So Amazing About Grace?