Philip Yancey Quotes

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Christlikeness is a journey, not a destination. The joy is in the journey.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

The apparent goal of the journey is simply the carrot the universe dangles before you to get you to learn the lessons the adventure yields.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the 'Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.

Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.

Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.

Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.

I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.