Philip Yancey Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, Giving

• 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

• In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

  Philip Yancey

  Desire, Stories, Reckless

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Sep 22, 2013

• I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Loyalty, Religious

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

• Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Faithful

• Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Desire, Way

• God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

  Philip Yancey

  Greatness, Space, Desire

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 28, 2012

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