Quotes from Philip Yancey
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
- Philip Yancey
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
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
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
- Philip Yancey
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
- Philip Yancey
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
- Philip Yancey
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
- Philip Yancey
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
- Philip Yancey
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
- Philip Yancey
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
- Philip Yancey
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
- Philip Yancey