Philip Yancey Quotes

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

Please, God, send me something to adore.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

God is in my heart; I see God in my daughter and my mother.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.

The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

Searching for a perfect love is not easy to find,but having the love of our God is more perfect than what you have found".

Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.