Philip Yancey Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

  Philip Yancey

  Easter, Pain, Christ On The Cross

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.111, Harper Collins

• Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

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  Jesus, Suffering, Matter

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.61, Harper Collins

• To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

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  Lonely, Pain, Love You

• Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

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  Suffering, Tragedy, Faith In God

  Philip Yancey (1997). “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, p.85, Zondervan

• The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Hurt

• On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

• When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

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  Suffering, Different, Way

• Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

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  Jesus, Heart, People

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.51, Harper Collins

• Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

  Philip Yancey

  Suffering, Comfort, Complaining

• When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

  Philip Yancey

  Wall, Suffering, World

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.174, Hachette UK

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