Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward. Philip Yancey More Quotes by Philip Yancey More Quotes From Philip Yancey Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy. Philip Yancey prayers muslims great intimacy Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty. Philip Yancey feel great me prayer When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! Philip Yancey person try being prayer God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it? Philip Yancey us naked truth god In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence. Philip Yancey gods some existence evil I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings. Philip Yancey think you feelings way One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met. Philip Yancey words me today people I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country. Philip Yancey gift you grace people You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that. Philip Yancey you respect god bible We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body. Philip Yancey tiger stars today culture As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents. Philip Yancey stand parents awe The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Philip Yancey us new being good Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence. Philip Yancey feel freedom society children God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. Philip Yancey feel mysterious things-happen god
