The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good. Philip Yancey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood. Philip Yancey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason. Philip Yancey Read Quote
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it? Philip Yancey Read Quote
It’s too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of ‘spiritual disciplines.’ Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don’t do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way. Philip Yancey Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
