Quotes about Belief
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
How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
— Philip Yancey
That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.
— Philip Yancey
It makes a huge difference whether I treat a nonbeliever as someone who is wrong rather than as someone who is on the way but lost.
— Philip Yancey
For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.
— Philip Yancey
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
— Philip Yancey
For in the nature of things everything that is faith must rise, and everything that rises must converge.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference." — President Jimmy Carter
— Jimmy Carter