The Bible Jesus Read Quotes

“Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Oswald Chambers once said that the Psalms teach you how to pray; Job teaches you how to suffer; the Song of Solomon teaches you how to love; Proverbs teaches you how to live; and Ecclesiastes teaches you how to enjoy.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“we persevere because we believe rewards will come.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“G. K. Chesterton once wrote, “All men matter. You matter. I matter. It’s the hardest thing in theology to believe.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“La fidelidad implica aprender a confiar que, más allá del perímetro de la oscuridad, Dios aún reina y no nos ha abandonado, no importa lo que parezca.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“God also appealed to nature as giving evidence of his wisdom and power. Although God may seem silent, some sign of him can still be found. Author Joseph Bayly expressed the truth this way: “Remember in the darkness what you have learned in the light.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“God’s message, expressed in gorgeous poetry, boils down to something like this: Until you know a little more about running the physical universe, Job, don’t tell me how to run the moral universe. By describing the wonders of nature, relishing especially its wildness, God hints at some of the inherent limitations of natural law and of his preference not to intervene. God criticizes Job for only one thing, his limited point of view. Job has based his judgments on incomplete evidence — an insight that those of us in the “audience” have seen all along. To correct that misconception, God expands Job’s range of vision from his own miserable circumstances to the entire universe.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“If we had only the Gospels, we would envision a God who seems confined, all-too-human, and rather weak — after all, Jesus ended up hanging on a cross. The Jews objected so strongly to Jesus because, despite his audacious claims, he did not match their conception of what God is like; they rejected him for not measuring up. The book of Revelation gives a different glimpse of Jesus — blazing light, stunning in glory, unlimited in power — and the Old Testament likewise fills in a different portrayal of God.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Apart from the Old Testament we will always have an impoverished view of God.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“While Moses was forging a new life in Midian, far from the Hebrew slaves, God had been listening to their groans. All at once the slow, mysterious work of a timeless God came into sharp focus, revealing that nothing in Moses’ circuitous life had been wasted. God now had a Hebrew of pure pedigree, expertly trained in Egyptian leadership skills, fully capable of surviving in the wilderness. The time for liberation of God’s chosen people had arrived. Now to convince Moses. And Pharaoh.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“La última sección comienza con Salmos, y continúa con Proverbios, Job, Cantar de los Cantares, Rut, Lamentaciones, Eclesiastés, Ester, Daniel, Esdras, Nehemías y las Crónicas. Miles nota que ese orden enfatiza un sentido creciente del silencio o el abandono de Dios. De hecho, después del largo discurso al final de Job, Dios nunca habla de nuevo.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“La pregunta final estuvo preocupando a los judíos por siglos después que Malaquías y los otros profetas desaparecieron de la escena. No veían milagros, ni intervenciones espectaculares, y no habían escuchado nuevos mensajes del Señor. ¿Se había olvidado Dios de ser misericordioso? ¿Se había tapado los oídos a sus gemidos? El Antiguo Testamento termina con una nota de desilusión, anhelos no cumplidos, y remota esperanza.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“Confieso que, a pesar de las largas horas de estudio de los profetas, no tengo un entendimiento más claro de lo que sucederá el año próximo ni en el año 2025. Pero tengo una idea mucho más clara de lo que Dios desea lograr en mi vida ahora mismo. Y estoy ganando, gradualmente, confianza para creer en el presente lo que solo será totalmente entendible cuando se vea desde el futuro.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“Los profetas nos llaman a la visión de una realidad subyacente más profunda, a «regocijo más allá de las paredes del mundo, más conmovedor que el dolor» (frase de Tolkien). Al darnos un vistazo del futuro y del presente cósmico, hacen que nos sea posible creer en un Dios que después de todo es justo. La justicia es esencial para los profetas, ya que la reputación de Dios descansa en si puede finalmente traer justicia a este mundo. Como una campana que tañe desde otro mundo, los profetas proclaman que no importa cómo parezcan las cosas ahora, no hay futuro en la maldad, sino solamente en el bien.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“Según Abraham Heschel, la sociedad antigua apreciaba tres cosas por encima de todo: la sabiduría, la salud y el poder. (¿Ha cambiado algo desde entonces?) Los profetas hebreos atacaban esos tres valores, porque cualquiera de ellos podía convertirse en ídolo.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“Aprendió la dura lección que Moisés había tratado de enseñar a los israelitas siglos atrás: cualquier cosa que los seres humanos toquen, llevará un defecto fatal. Los buenos tiempos representan el verdadero peligro; nuestros mejores esfuerzos nos llevan a la ruina. En resumen, los seres humanos no son dioses, y ese entendimiento llevó al Maestro a la desesperación.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“Por todo esto y mucho más deberíamos estar viviendo un amanecer de gran promesa. Pero ahora que somos más libres para disfrutar la vida, estamos profundamente decepcionados de que la libertad y la comodidad, que buscamos con tan profundo deseo, no le da significado ni propósito a nuestra vida.”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“La única sabiduría que podemos esperar adquirir es la sabiduría de la humildad. La humildad no tiene límite. —T. S. ELLIOT”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“«¿Cuál es el significado de la vida?», le preguntó el estudiante al rabino. El rabino respondió: «Esa es una pregunta maravillosa, ¿por qué la quiere cambiar por una respuesta?»”
― Philip Yancey, La Biblia Que Leyo Jesus

“In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians. The Teacher’s answer is clear: A good and loving God naturally would want his creatures to experience delight, joy, and personal fulfillment. G. K. Chesterton credits pleasure, or eternity in his heart, as the signpost that eventually directed him to God:”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read

“never live as though God does not exist.” Or, stated positively, “Always live in awareness of God’s existence.”
― Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read