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If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — Philip Yancey

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude. — Rick Yancey

I'm hoping to pass for one of Vosch's tween recruits, but I probably look more like GI Joe's little sister playing dress up — Rick Yancey

Who does this teenage version of the Brawny paper-towel guy think he's kidding? — Rick Yancey

saw he had not been scraping at an exposed rib. He had been cleaning the thing's teeth. — Rick Yancey

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. — Philip Yancey

It's the lady, then," he murmured. — Rick Yancey

I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God. That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it up with God. Like: God, WTF? — Rick Yancey

You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do. — Rick Yancey

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love. — Philip Yancey

My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious.
"My ankle's broken," he said.
"Then I'll come to you. — Rick Yancey

That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak. — Rick Yancey

The world will burn for years. It will burn until I'm my father's age - if I live that long. — Rick Yancey

And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead — Rick Yancey

If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel. — Philip Yancey

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn. — Philip Yancey

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less. — Philip Yancey

When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence. — Philip Yancey

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; — Philip Yancey

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward. — Philip Yancey

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. — Philip Yancey

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are. — Philip Yancey

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. — Philip Yancey

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them. — Philip Yancey

This here? It's mine. — Rick Yancey

We're the dead. There's no one else now. There's the past-dead and the future-dead. Corpses and corpses-to-be. — Rick Yancey

Ha-ha. The dumb jock who can't talk the Queen's English. I swear to God, the next person who corrects my grammar gets punched in the face. — Rick Yancey

It's her eyes that get to me. The deep dark of them. Is nothing there - or nearly everything? — Rick Yancey

In fact, I can't even tell if I'm breathing. That's number one on the "How do I know if I'm alive?" checklist. — Rick Yancey

It's over. It's never over. It isn't a line from that night to this day; it's a circle. — Rick Yancey

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for. — Rick Yancey

I don't move. I wait behind my log, terrified. Over the past ten minutes, it's become such a dear friend, I consider naming it: Howard, my pet log. — Rick Yancey

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication. — Rick Yancey

According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged. — Philip Yancey

I'm a disease. That's what I am to you. — Rick Yancey

The promise feels like a death sentence, a cell door slamming shut, a stone around my neck that's destined to carry me down — Rick Yancey

It isn't up to me to break his heart; that's time's job. — Rick Yancey

It's moments like those that make me want to slap him, not that slapping him would do any good, but it would make me feel better. — Rick Yancey

Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering. — Philip Yancey

You can feel it deep in your bones because it's older than your senses: the end of winter, the Earth sliding toward Spring. — Rick Yancey

Dad would fix this. Because that's what dads do. They fix things. — Rick Yancey

Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black. — Rick Yancey

Well, thought I, he's either sleeping or he's dead. If the former, I dare not wake him. If the latter, I cannot! — Rick Yancey

There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life. — Rick Yancey

When I wake up the next morning, there's a Hershey's Kiss sitting on the table beside me. — Rick Yancey

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops. — Rick Yancey

Cassie is Nugget's silver locket. — Rick Yancey

When you love someone. Something happens to them, and it's a punch in the heart. Not like a punch in the heart; a real punch in the heart. — Rick Yancey

We are here, and then we are gone, and it's not about the time we're, but what we do with that time. — Rick Yancey

I can't decide if he's holding me back or holding me up. — Rick Yancey

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia. — Rick Yancey

It's an either/or world now. — Rick Yancey

I don't care where we go, as long as it's not Dubuque!" Dumbo — Rick Yancey

Cassie," Sam said in my ear. "Your nose is really big."
"That's because it's broken." Like my heart, kid. It's a set. — Rick Yancey

He's entitled to his opinion, but that's all it is. An opinion. — Rick Yancey

That's what you do when the curtain is falling
you give the line that the audience wants to hear. — Rick Yancey

Because that's what you do when the curtain is falling, you say the line the audience wants to hear. — Rick Yancey

They rest in us and we in them. Our heart contains all others. One heart, one life, on the advent of a mayfly's final flight — Rick Yancey

In God's presence I feel small because I am small. — Philip Yancey

He spreads his fingers over my heart, like he's holding it, like it belongs to him, the hard-fought-for territory he's won fair and square. — Rick Yancey

You left her. When she needed you, you ran. And you're still running. Don't you think it's time you stop running and fight for her? — Rick Yancey

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first. — Rick Yancey

That's how it'll go down. Those will be the last words of the last one left. I am human. — Rick Yancey

The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us. — Rick Yancey

There's nothing left to say. There's a million things left to say. — Rick Yancey

Because love is the most dangerous weapon in the world. It's more unstable than uranium. — Rick Yancey

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out. — Rick Yancey

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time. — Rick Yancey

The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain. — Rick Yancey

For some, death is the midwife to faith. For others, it is faith's executioner. — Rick Yancey

The only way to stay alive is to stay alone. That's rule number two. — Rick Yancey

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 - Philip Yancey — Lisa Harper

If there was any hope left, it lay in love's hopeless promises. — Rick Yancey

Homeless people bear God's image too. — Philip Yancey

Because we're too hard to kill. We're invista ... investra ... invinta ... " "Invincible?" "That's it!" With a reassuring pat on my arm. "Invincible. — Rick Yancey

No matter how well you know someone, there's still a part of them you won't. You can't. Like, ever. A locked room. I don't know. — Rick Yancey

Run equals die. Stay equals die. So before we go all O.K. Corral on this, let's consider the third option: We blow it up. — Rick Yancey

Somentimes you're in the wrong place at the wrong time and what happens is nobody's fault.You just want to feel bad so you'll feel better. — Rick Yancey

There's my gut instinct: Don't rush. Don't force the issue. Let it play out. — Rick Yancey

Who are you Evan? If that's evan your name. Even your name. — Rick Yancey

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good. — Rick Yancey

Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. — Philip Yancey

It's why a kid army makes sense. Adults don't waste their time on magical thinking. They dwell on the same inconvenient truths that — Rick Yancey

That's the way of every human catastrophe. The douchebag is nearly indestructible. — Rick Yancey

Then I strip the pants away from each leg, like peeling a banana. That's it, the perfect metaphor: peeling a banana. — Rick Yancey

There's an old saying about the truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts. — Rick Yancey

There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out. — Rick Yancey

Evan is the little branch growing out of the cliff that she clings to, and the fact that he's gone makes her hang on even tighter. — Rick Yancey

Good God, man, what is that smell?" He eyed with disgust the doctor's filthy cloak.
"Life," answered the doctor. — Rick Yancey

It's about being hardcore. Because this is the last war, and only the hardcore will survive it. — Rick Yancey

The most delightful thing he's discovered about shooting someone is how ridiculously easy it is. Tying your shoes is harder. — Rick Yancey

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer! — Rick Yancey

He's my itty-bitty bush growing out of the cliff that I cling to. — Rick Yancey

Ultimately, Bob is on nobody's side but Bob's. — Rick Yancey

By killing us, they showed us the idiocy of stuff. The guy who owned this BMW? He's in the same place as the woman who owned that Kia. — Rick Yancey

We regarded each other across an expanse wider than the universe, within a space thinner than a razor's edge. — Rick Yancey

On the table beside me is a book entitled Love's Desperate Desire. Based on the cover, I would have called it My Spectacular Washboard Abs. — Rick Yancey

Speaking of fruit, I'm down
I mean, he's down
to his underwear. — Rick Yancey

You don't feel like it's going to happen to you ... until it happens to you. — Rick Yancey