Quotes about Spirituality
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
— Philip Yancey
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
— Philip Yancey
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
— Philip Yancey
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.
— Philip Yancey
The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.
— Philip Yancey
In God's presence I feel small because I am small.
— Philip Yancey
If we cannot detect God's presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.
— Philip Yancey
I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.
— Philip Yancey
Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs.
— Philip Yancey
Does prayer change God or change me?
— Philip Yancey