All Philip Yancey Quotes
- If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires… Align
- Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. Believer
- Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the… Anyone
- Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's… Accomplish
- Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. Greed
- Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments… Acute
- Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy. Faith
- Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. Any
- In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury with a thousand… Ancient
- The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. Christ
- We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out. Concerned
- For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator. Bears
- O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice Bad
- God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that… All
- When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not… Absolutely
- Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But… All
- Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that… Beings
- The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion. All
- Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can… God
- In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square Arena