Philip Yancey Quotes

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

To love another person is to see the face of God.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

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

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

We have made people in the industry and the people that see us aware that God loves them.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Where love is, there God is also.

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

When love is pure, it has the power to conquer. Lover and beloved conquer each other by their affection. The source, the essence, the fullest manifestation of love's conquering power is the love of the soul for the supreme soul, or God.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

Some people call God, some people call Allah; I want to see the fruit of the love, I want to see the love, the love to help the brothers who may not be as fortunate as us.

I experience God as the power of love.

God gives us love. Something to love He leads us; but, when love is grown To ripeness that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

When we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does, so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

God is love, love is bhakti and bhakti our connection to God.