Quotes about Awareness
In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
— Philip Yancey
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
— Philip Yancey
Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention
— Philip Yancey
The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
— Philip Yancey
Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I
— Philip Yancey
When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack of presence.
— Philip Yancey
Thielicke gently turned his parishioners to the example of Jesus who saw like no one else the anguish and injustice, the terror, of this planet. Shouldn't such awareness have filled his every waking hour and robbed him of sleep at night? Shouldn't it have shaken his very soul?
— Philip Yancey
God is already present, in the most unexpected places. We just need to make God visible.
— Philip Yancey
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.
— Philip Yancey
The committee has again been reminded that every human effort is flawed
— Philip Yancey
On the other hand, if the subject had nothing to do but think about his pain (as is true in many hospitals and nursing homes), he showed much greater sensitivity.
— Philip Yancey
We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel
— Philip Yancey