Quotes from Philip Yancey
I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
- Philip Yancey
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
- Philip Yancey
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
- Philip Yancey
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
- Philip Yancey
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
- Philip Yancey
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
- Philip Yancey
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
- Philip Yancey
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
- Philip Yancey
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 is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
- Philip Yancey