"We can’t expect the nation to operate by……" — Philip Yancey

"We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church."

— 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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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which… — Karen Armstrong
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western… — Karen Armstrong
For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In… — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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