Quotes about Hope
Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.
— Philip Yancey
God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.
— Philip Yancey
Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
— Philip Yancey
Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.
— Philip Yancey
The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.
— Philip Yancey
Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.
— 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
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