Philip Yancey - Faith Quotes

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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

Philip Yancey
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

Philip Yancey
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Philip Yancey
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Philip Yancey
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

Philip Yancey
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Philip Yancey
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

Philip Yancey
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Philip Yancey
Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

Philip Yancey
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Philip Yancey