"The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace."

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Source : Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.61, Harper Collins

Philip Yancey

#Pain Quotes #Grace Quotes #Scandal Quotes

“The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.”

Source : Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.
“Everyone knew this was the episode that was going to make or break the season.”
“My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.”
“Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.”
“Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.”

Source : Lauren F. Winner (2002). “Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life”, p.58, Algonquin Books
“Legality can't create love if it isn't there, or preserve it if it's dying, but it can destroy love by making it compulsory.”
“I never won an Oscar... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas”
“I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so."”

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