Quote

We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Philip Yancey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
Author
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Turn
Turns
Spiritual
Seems
Things
Concerned

More quotes by Philip Yancey

Image
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
Philip Yancey
Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
Philip Yancey
Image
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
Philip Yancey
Image
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
Philip Yancey
Image
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
Philip Yancey
Image
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
Philip Yancey
Image
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
Philip Yancey
Image
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
Philip Yancey
Image
I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
Philip Yancey
Image
You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
Philip Yancey
Image
... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
Philip Yancey
Image
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
Philip Yancey
Image
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
Philip Yancey
Image
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
Philip Yancey
Image
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
Philip Yancey
Image
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
Philip Yancey
Image
The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
Philip Yancey
Image
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Philip Yancey
Image
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
Philip Yancey
Image
The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
Philip Yancey