Quotes about Belief
It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.
— Philip Yancey
Never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence.
— Philip Yancey
Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean on. God is wild, you know, he wrote. We're not in charge.
— Philip Yancey
Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
— Philip Yancey
As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.
— Philip Yancey
No society in history has attempted to live without a belief in the sacred, not until the modern West.
— Philip Yancey
What would it mean, I ask myself, if I too came to the place where I saw my primary identity in life as "the one Jesus loves"? How differently would I view myself at the end of a day?
— Philip Yancey
God took a great risk by announcing forgiveness in advance, and the scandal of grace involves a transfer of that risk to us.
— Philip Yancey
True hope is honest.
— Philip Yancey
Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.
— Philip Yancey
You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.
— Philip Yancey
Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
— Philip Yancey