Quotes about Connection
Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.
- Philip Yancey
My publisher conducted a website poll, and of the 678 respondents only 23 felt satisfied with the time they were spending in prayer. That
- Philip Yancey
To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.
- Philip Yancey
We pray because we can't help it.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
- Philip Yancey
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
- Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus we need never question God's desire for intimacy. Does God really want close contact with us? Jesus gave up Heaven for it.
- Philip Yancey
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.
- Philip Yancey
I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.
- Philip Yancey
Although we all have the capacity, our spiritual longing will remain unfulfilled until we make contact, and then develop the skills of spiritual "correspondence.
- Philip Yancey
Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.
- Philip Yancey
God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.
- Philip Yancey