Philip Yancey Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Christian, Taken

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Feb 19, 2013

• We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

  Philip Yancey

  Hard Work, People, Community

• True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

  Philip Yancey

  Hurt, Healing, People

• 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

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

  Philip Yancey

  Community, Intellectual, Christianity

  Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). “Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage”, p.23, Zondervan

• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

  Philip Yancey

  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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