Philip Yancey Quotes About Knowing God

Quotes about: Knowing God

• If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Want Something, Desire

• Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

  Philip Yancey

  Land, Safety, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2008). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.105, Zondervan

• I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

  Philip Yancey

  Knowing God, Knows

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.95, Zondervan

• By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Missing, Behavior

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.210, Harper Collins

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