Philip Yancey Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

  Philip Yancey

  Effort, Grace, Augustine

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.71, Harper Collins

• Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

  Philip Yancey

  Fall, Best Effort, Church

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

  Philip Yancey

  Effort, Unseen, World

  Philip Yancey (2003). “Rumors of Another World: What on Earth are We Missing?”, p.47, Harper Collins

• prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Race, Goal

  Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.23, Hachette UK

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