Philip Yancey Quotes
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
Quotes to Explore
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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Bitterness and unforgiveness block the flow of God's blessing in your life and actually hinder your prayers.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
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See I need you in my life for me to stay No no no no no I know you'll stay Oh no no no no don't go away
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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We started experimenting with television in 1928. For a lot of people, Philips has a lot to do with TV.
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I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
