Quotes about Belief
Love, too, is why I believe. At the end of life, what else matters?
— Philip Yancey
As G. K. Chesterton put it, "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." Nature teaches me nothing about Incarnation or the Victorious Christian Life. It does, though, awaken my desire to meet whoever is responsible for the monarch butterfly.
— Philip Yancey
We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.
— Philip Yancey
discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.
— Philip Yancey
Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.
— Philip Yancey
The gospel transforms culture by permeating it like yeast, and long after the people abandon belief they tend to live by habits of the soul. Once salted and yeasted, society is difficult to un-salt and un-yeast.
— 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
Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.
— Philip Yancey
My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.
— Philip Yancey
As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.
— Philip Yancey
Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take
— Philip Yancey