Philip Yancey Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• 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

• prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Race, Goal

  Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.23, Hachette UK

• Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, Thinking, Vision

  Philip Yancey (1988). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.264, Harper Collins

• 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

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