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My publisher conducted a website poll, and of the 678 respondents only 23 felt satisfied with the time they were spending in prayer. That
— Philip Yancey
Prayer is an expression of who we are…. We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
— Philip Yancey
The West too may find that prosperity and self-indulgence are not sufficient to satisfy human needs.
— Philip Yancey
Although we all have the capacity, our spiritual longing will remain unfulfilled until we make contact, and then develop the skills of spiritual "correspondence.
— Philip Yancey
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
— Philip Yancey
Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.
— Philip Yancey
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day
— Philip Yancey
Somehow Christians have gotten a reputation as anti-pleasure, and this despite the fact that they believe pleasure was an invention of the Creator himself. We Christians have a choice. We can present ourselves as uptight bores who sacrificially forfeit half the fun of life by limiting our indulgence in sex, food, and other sensual pleasures. Or we can set about enjoying pleasure to the fullest, which means enjoying it in the way the Creator intended.
— Philip Yancey
Christianity offers the further insight that true fulfillment comes, not through ego satisfaction, but through service to others.
— Philip Yancey
Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.
— Philip Yancey
Where did our sense of beauty and pleasure come from? That seems to me a huge question—the philosophical equivalent, for atheists, to the problem of pain for Christians. The Teacher's answer is clear: A good and loving God naturally would want his creatures to experience delight, joy, and personal fulfillment. G. K. Chesterton credits pleasure, or eternity in his heart, as the signpost that eventually directed him to God:
— Philip Yancey
Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?
— Philip Yancey