Quotes about Understanding
We do not pray to tell God what he does not know, nor to remind him of things he has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about... He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with him.
— Philip Yancey
What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse
— Philip Yancey
How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.
— Philip Yancey
As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20
— Philip Yancey
In sum, I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
— Philip Yancey
I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.
— Philip Yancey
As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.
— 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
Who helped you most? Most often they (suffering people) answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own.
— Philip Yancey
It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.
— Philip Yancey
We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.
— Philip Yancey
Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3
— Philip Yancey