Quotes about Life
If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.
— Philip Yancey
At the end of her story she said simply, "As I look back, this is what matters. I have loved and been loved, and all the rest is just background music.
— Philip Yancey
Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?
— Philip Yancey
Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.
— Philip Yancey
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.
— 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
What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?
— Philip Yancey
Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.
— Philip Yancey
No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.
— Philip Yancey
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for
— Philip Yancey
Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
— Philip Yancey
None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
— Philip Yancey