Time Quotes by Philip Yancey

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

— Philip Yancey

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…

— Philip Yancey

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

— Philip Yancey

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

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

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

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of…

— Philip Yancey

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends.…

— Philip Yancey

God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes…

— Philip Yancey

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos…

— Philip Yancey

“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift…

— Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in…

— Philip Yancey

“And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I…

— Philip Yancey

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…

— Philip Yancey

Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as…

— Philip Yancey