"Prayer is the act of seeing reality from……" — Philip Yancey

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. - Philip Yancey

"Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view."

— Philip Yancey

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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey has 157 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know…
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important…
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing…
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses…
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life…
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

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