Quotes from Philip Yancey
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
- Philip Yancey
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
- Philip Yancey
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
- Philip Yancey
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.
- Philip Yancey
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
- Philip Yancey
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
- Philip Yancey
[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
- Philip Yancey
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
- Philip Yancey
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
- Philip Yancey
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
- Philip Yancey
Love is an overarching style of relating to another.
- Philip Yancey
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
- Philip Yancey