Philip Yancey Quotes


Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Philip Yancey Understanding 83
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. Philip Yancey Activism 69
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. Philip Yancey Church 51
The things good Lord that we pray for give us the grace to labour for as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions. Philip Yancey Prayer 50
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful God is tilted toward the underdog. Philip Yancey Jesus christ 40
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives. Philip Yancey Prayer 39
If my activism however wellmotivated drives out love then I have misunderstood Jesus gospel. I am stuck with law not the gospel of grace. Philip Yancey Activism 37
Power no matter how wellintentioned tends to cause suffering. Love being vulnerable absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary God renounced the one for the sake of the other. Philip Yancey Jesus 35
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. Philip Yancey Living 35
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 not strength or wealth. Philip Yancey Hero 31
When I pray for another person I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person. Philip Yancey Prayer 29
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is full of flaws whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. Philip Yancey Prayer 23

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