Quotes from Philip Yancey
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
- Philip Yancey
The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation.
- Philip Yancey
Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable 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
Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture?
- Philip Yancey
Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
- Philip Yancey
The temptation that Jesus resisted in the wildreness [a crown without a cross; worldly glory], many of us, His followers, still long for.
- Philip Yancey
The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.
- Philip Yancey
Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.
- Philip Yancey
That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus' word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.
- Philip Yancey
A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
- Philip Yancey