Philip Yancey Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Skills, Achievement

• Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.

  Philip Yancey

  War, Fall, Heart

• 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

• 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

  Hero, Doe, Want

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Bible Jesus Read: Why the Old Testament Matters”, p.26, Harper Collins

• Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

  Philip Yancey

  Confused, Community, Ordinary

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