Quotes about Hope
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
— Philip Yancey
As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.
— Philip Yancey
Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take
— Philip Yancey
In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)
— Philip Yancey
The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.
— Philip Yancey
What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering.
— Philip Yancey
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
— Philip Yancey
It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.
— Philip Yancey
The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.
— Philip Yancey
when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.
— Philip Yancey
Those who suffer rest their security not on things, which often cannot be enjoyed and may soon be taken away, but rather on people.
— Philip Yancey
Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.
— Philip Yancey