Mike Yaconelli Quotes

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?

I'm a Jewish born-again Christian.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

I am not against it. But I am suspicious of all forms of New Age spirituality, and religion in general.

The path I follow is still an Orthodox path. You have to follow a path; otherwise, it becomes a little bit new-age, a bit of this, a bit of that.

I think maybe it is better to believe than not to believe. But I couldn't tell you why.

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Il est non seulement impossible, mais inutile de conna:"tre Dieu sans Je sus-Christ. It is not only impossible, but also useless to recognize God without Jesus.

No matter how good you think yourself to be, you cannot enter heaven unless it is under the terms of sovereign grace.

The Christian is called upon to be the partner of God in the work of the conversion of men.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

[The 4 spiritual laws and sinner's prayer] is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, and that methodology and envangelism has done more to hurt this country than every heresy introduced by every cult combined. Millions of people in this country whose lives have never been changed believed themselves born again because we have so reduced the gospel of Jesus Christ that it means now nothing more than simple decision that will only take five minutes of your time.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

A reduced Christ is the same as a rejected Christ.