Philip Yancey Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, Writing, Drawing

• The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Hurt

• As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can "handle" my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.

  Philip Yancey

  Jobs, Prayer, Book

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Bible Jesus Read: Why the Old Testament Matters”, p.130, Harper Collins

• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

  Philip Yancey

  Gratitude, Book, World

• Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, Essence, Feelings

  Philip Yancey, James C. Schaap (2002). “More than words: contemporary writers on the works that shaped them”, Baker Pub Group

• When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

  Philip Yancey

  Book, Writing, People

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