Disappointment with God Quotes

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“One bold message in the Book of Job is that you can say anything to God. Throw at him your grief, your anger, your doubt, your bitterness, your betrayal, your disappointment—he can absorb them all. As often as not, spiritual giants of the Bible are shown contending with God. They prefer to go away limping, like Jacob, rather than to shut God out. In this respect, the Bible prefigures a tenet of modern psychology: you can’t really deny your feelings or make them disappear, so you might as well express them. God can deal with every human response save one. He cannot abide the response I fall back on instinctively: an attempt to ignore him or treat him as though he does not exist. That response never once occurred to Job.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our sakes. Re-creation involves us; we are, in fact, at the center of his plan...the motive behind all human history, is to develop us, not God. Our very existence announces to the powers in the universe that restoration is under way. Every act of faith by every one of the people of God is like the tolling of a bell, and a faith like Job's reverberates throughout the universe.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the “real” world and the unseen world as the “unreal” world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Some people find no comfort in the prophets’ vision of a future world. “The church has used that line for centuries to justify slavery, oppression, and all manner of injustice,” they say. The criticism sticks because the church has abused the prophets’ vision. But you will never find that “pie in the sky” rationale in the prophets themselves. They have scathing words about the need to care for widows and orphans and aliens, and to clean up corrupt courts and religious systems. The
people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“Somehow, that “faith” was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Un osado mensaje que encontramos en el libro de Job es que a Dios se le puede decir lo que se desee. Arroje ante él su angustia, su ira, sus dudas, su amargura, su dolor por sentirse traicionado, su desilusión.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“«No te olvides en las tinieblas de lo que aprendiste en la luz»,”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“La fe consiste en creer por anticipado algo que solo tendrá sentido cuando se mire hacia el pasado.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“«Nosotros, sin Dios, no podemos. Dios, sin nosotros, no quiere», decía San Agustín.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“En cambio, Jesucristo nunca obligó a nadie a creer en él. Prefería actuar por medio de la atracción, sacando a los humanos de sí mismos para atraerlos hacia él.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“Ya era gran cosa que el hombre hubiera sido hecho antes
como Dios, pero que Dios se hiciera como el hombre, fue
mucho más. —John Donne, Holy Sonnet 15 [Soneto Santo 15]”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“Dios sufre con nosotros para que un día podamos reír con él. —Jürgen Moltmann”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“Si Dios se dedicara a enviar rayos como respuesta a las malas doctrinas, nuestro planeta brillaría como un árbol navideño.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“«El problema de Dios no es que no sea capaz de hacer ciertas cosas. Su problema es que él ama. El amor le complica la vida a Dios, como se la complica a cualquiera”1.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“El poder consigue todo, menos lo más importante: no puede controlar el amor.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. Only at the end of time, after we have attained God’s level of viewing, after every evil has been punished or forgiven, every illness healed, and the entire universe restored—only then will fairness reign. Then we will understand what role is played by evil, and by the Fall, and by natural law, in an “unfair” event like the death of a child. Until then, we will not know, and can only trust in a God who does know.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Can we live now “as if ” God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The prophets proclaim that history will be determined not by the past or present, but by the future.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Even the greatest of miracles do not resolve the problems of this earth: all people who find physical healing eventually die. We need more than miracle. We need a new heaven and a new earth, and until we have those, unfairness will not disappear.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Can we live now “as if” God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Los israelitas dieron amplias pruebas de que podemos llegar a desear las señales sin desear en realidad a Dios.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“La idea central en la mayor parte del Antiguo Testamento podría ser llamada «la idea de la soledad de Dios». — G. K. Chesterton”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios

“Cuando nos encontremos en el cielo nuevo y la tierra nueva, poseeremos al fin cuanto hemos suspirado por tener.”
― Philip Yancey, Desilusión con Dios