Quotes about Struggle
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
— Philip Yancey
a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.
— Philip Yancey
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
— Philip Yancey
It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.
— Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
— Philip Yancey
We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.
— Philip Yancey
suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an
— Philip Yancey
I fight the tentacular grip of ungrace in my own life. Although I may not perpetuate the strictness of my upbringing, I battle daily against pride, judgmentalism, and a feeling that I must somehow earn God's approval.
— Philip Yancey
Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.
— Philip Yancey
Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.
— Philip Yancey
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
— Philip Yancey
As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.
— Philip Yancey