We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us. 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 prayersmuslimsgreatintimacy 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 feelgreatmeprayer 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 persontrybeingprayer God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it? Philip Yancey usnakedtruthgod In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence. Philip Yancey godssomeexistenceevil 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 thinkyoufeelingsway 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 wordsmetodaypeople 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 giftyougracepeople 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 yourespectgodbible 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 tigerstarstodayculture As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents. Philip Yancey standparentsawe The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Philip Yancey usnewbeinggood 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 feelfreedomsocietychildren God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. Philip Yancey feelmysteriousthings-happengod
