Philip Yancey Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

  Philip Yancey

  Healing, Giving, Grace

• One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.

  Philip Yancey

  Lying, Biblical, Giving

• The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Voice, Giving

• The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Giving, World

• 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

• Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Believe, Giving

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.53, Harper Collins

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