Philip Yancey Quotes

Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

Faith is the very heroism and enterprise of intellect. Faith is not a passivity, but a faculty. Faith is power, the material of effect. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great work men of history have been men who believed like giants.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

Faith becomes a bridge between where I am and where I want to go- it is a substance.

Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

Always follow your heart and have faith in yourself and believe in the Lord and He will believe in you.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.

Only the Holy Spirit has the power to make the changes God wants to make in our lives.... We allow Christ to live through us... through the choices we make. We choose to do the right thing in situations and then trust God's Spirit to give us his power, love, faith, and wisdom to do it. Since God's Spirit lives inside of us, these things are always available for asking.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, let them complain over what might have been, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, let them be discouraged, let them be revengeful and vindictive, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, let them become materialistic and empty, but not you. Let others become ungrateful and stop praying, but not you! Let others give up, but not you! For you know in whom you believe and you know that He is always able. Now, that's you!

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

No one wants to set out to be a hero, and discover that they've been a villain all along.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.