Author: Philip Yancey

Quotes

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.'

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.

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

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

- Philip Yancey

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

- Philip Yancey

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

- Philip Yancey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

- Philip Yancey

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

- Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

- Philip Yancey

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

- Philip Yancey

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