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Faith Quotes by Philip Yancey
- 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…
- Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
- 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…
- The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
- Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
- True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
- Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
- Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
- Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
- I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
- We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
- God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith,…
- I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
- As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God…
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- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. — Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine