Philip Yancey Quotes

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Give a portion of your money to others. By releasing an anxious grasp on your money, you will open yourself to receive all that is meant to be yours.

Choose to be kind. Choose to forgive. Let your love grow and shine so that people may look at the example of your life and glorify God in Heaven.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

Anne is very forgiving. She doesn't care about money, being rich, or clothes. We never argued about finances.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

The key to winning is choosing to do God's will and loving others with all you've got.