Quotes about Truth
Unlike many television evangelists, the apostle Paul seemed to expect from the Christian life not health and wealth, but a measure of suffering. He told Timothy, "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Timothy 3:12).
— Philip Yancey
Unless we can grasp our own beliefs as truly good news, we cannot easily communicate them to a thirsty world.
— Philip Yancey
Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel
— Philip Yancey
A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
— 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
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
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
we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.
— Philip Yancey
It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.
— Philip Yancey
To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion," cautioned T. S. Eliot.
— Philip Yancey
The gospel is not at all what we would come up with on our own.
— Philip Yancey