For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God. Philip Yancey More Quotes by Philip Yancey More Quotes From Philip Yancey Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse. Philip Yancey church body hurt My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning. Philip Yancey mother life thinking Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn. Philip Yancey aquifers oil years The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. Philip Yancey old-testament way jesus All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness. Philip Yancey light darkness jesus When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it. Philip Yancey wall suffering world I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love. Philip Yancey and-love mercy compassion Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. Philip Yancey hypocrisy pride jesus It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn. Philip Yancey like-you feelings fall Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. Philip Yancey best-effort church fall It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms. Philip Yancey baseball father art Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid. Philip Yancey salt bits littles Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. Philip Yancey essence feelings book I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest. Philip Yancey heart believe fall Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. Philip Yancey violent revolution kingdoms Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment. Philip Yancey routine focus fall Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven. Philip Yancey journey forget heaven As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step. Philip Yancey spiritual views children Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty. Philip Yancey confused community ordinary Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed his approach from "selling pearls," or peddling the good news, to "hunting for the treasure" already present in those he was called to love - a shift from dispensing religion to dispensing grace. It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves. Philip Yancey hunting humble views
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