The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, ‘No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.’ Philip Yancey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do. Philip Yancey Read Quote
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. Philip Yancey Read Quote
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. Philip Yancey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a ‘cultural Christian’ who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not. Philip Yancey Read Quote
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness – and certainly not love. Philip Yancey Read Quote
