Faith Quote by Philip Yancey Download Open image ““Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”” — Philip Yancey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faith Religion
“Faith, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Faith often means taking a voluntary step from the known into the unknown in response to God’s leading.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“Faith is when you see the prospect of success, even when you are not certain about the process.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“Faith is the confirmation of things we do not see and the conviction of their reality, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed… — Sarah Young Copy Share Image
“Faith is about submission and trust, not about will and determination.” — David Megill Copy Share Image
“Faith is an insertion of absolute conviction that is assume without reason and is defended against all reason.” — AronRa Copy Share Image
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“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 image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“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… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
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… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone. We have but a defective idea of what prejudice is. It might be said, that until men think for themselves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“The only limitations for your life are the limiting beliefs in your mind. —Matt Morris” — Matt Morris (1 Copy Share Image
“Just because your faith is shaken doesn’t mean the faith is shaken. The eternal truths of the Kingdom aren’t altered or affected by the… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
