Quotes about Community
Unfortunately, most of my secular friends would agree with Bill Gates, who considers religion a waste of time: "There's a lot more I could be doing on Sunday morning," he told an interviewer. They view the church not as a change agent that can affect all of society but as a place where like-minded people go to feel better about themselves.
— Philip Yancey
A church that lives by power dies by power.
— Philip Yancey
It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.
— Philip Yancey
The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.
— Philip Yancey
According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To
— Philip Yancey
An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.
— Philip Yancey
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move
— Philip Yancey
involvement with others was the most effective in quelling her pain.
— Philip Yancey
Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.
— Philip Yancey
The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.
— Philip Yancey
Over time Christians learned that the faith grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
— Philip Yancey
As Christ's body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God's consistent movement in all history.
— Philip Yancey