Want Quotes by Philip Yancey

14 Want quotes by Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey’s thoughts on Want are compact yet resonant, offering a thoughtful pause for anyone wrestling with deeper cravings. These 14 quotes give a quick glimpse into his contemplative style without overwhelming the reader.

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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he…

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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps…

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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.…

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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are…

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We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something…

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Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and…

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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles…

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Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It…

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One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than…

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Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...…

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I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with…

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Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and…

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Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

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Love deems this world worth rescuing.

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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

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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.

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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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“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…

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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs…

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

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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…

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