Philip Yancey Quotes

During the rests - pray.

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I talk to God every day. He's very real for me.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

Look at what trance means. It means to transcend... it means to become transcendental! So if we get a singular transcendental path of light, that could lead to such great dimensions of consciousness, of revelation, of spirituality, of spiritual power.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.