Philip Yancey Quotes About Healing

Quotes about: Healing

• Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

  Philip Yancey

  Healing, People, Grace

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.42, Harper Collins

• 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

• 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

• 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

• We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

  Philip Yancey

  Healing, Giving, Grace

• On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

• Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and disease operate according to fixed natural laws. Every so often, though, problems impinge on us so directly that we stretch beyond that mildly deistic stance and ask God to intervene. When a drought drags on too long, we pray for rain. When a young mother gets a diagnosis of cervical cancer, we solicit prayers for her healing. We beseech God as if trying to talk God into something God otherwise might not want to do.

  Philip Yancey

  Country, Mother, Prayer

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