Quotes about Responsibility
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square.
— Philip Yancey
Today, each time an election rolls around Christians debate whether this or that candidate is "God's man" for the White House. Projecting myself back into Jesus' time, I had difficulty imagining him pondering whether Tiberius, Octavius, or Julius Caesar was "God's man" for the empire.
— Philip Yancey
We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.
— Philip Yancey
In view of the mess we have made of crystal-clear commands--the unity of the church, love as a mark of Christians, racial and economic justice, the importance of personal purity, the dangers of wealth--I tremble to think what we would do if some of the ambiguous doctrines were less ambiguous.
— Philip Yancey
Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years," wrote Martin Luther. "Eve would say, 'You ate the apple,' and Adam would retort, 'You gave it to me.
— Philip Yancey
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
— Philip Yancey
Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?
— Philip Yancey
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
— Philip Yancey
When the church has occasion to set the rules for all society, it often veers toward the extremism
— Philip Yancey
The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.
— Philip Yancey
What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?
— Philip Yancey