Quotes about Belief
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
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
As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
— Philip Yancey
Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.
— Philip Yancey
There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.
— Philip Yancey
He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.
— Philip Yancey
There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.
— Philip Yancey