Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong....… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group:… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
