Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
Philip YanceyThe Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.
Philip YanceyI have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
Philip YanceyWe are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)
Philip Yancey