Quotes about Trust
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
— Philip Yancey
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.
— Philip Yancey
People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.
— Philip Yancey
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
— Philip Yancey
The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.
— Philip Yancey
The only hope for any of us, regardless of our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do.
— Philip Yancey
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
— Philip Yancey
Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
— Philip Yancey
But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.
— Philip Yancey
I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.
— Philip Yancey
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
— Philip Yancey
Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.
— Philip Yancey