Quotes about Patience
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
— Philip Yancey
Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa. As God fiercely reminded Job, the Lord of the universe has many things to manage, and in the midst of my self-pity I would do well to contemplate for a moment God's own point of view.
— Philip Yancey
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
— Philip Yancey
we persevere because we believe rewards will come.
— Philip Yancey
Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
— Philip Yancey
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
— Philip Yancey
My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.
— Philip Yancey
instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offences willingly, comfort the afflicted, pray for the living and the dead.
— Philip Yancey
We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
— Philip Yancey
Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.
— Philip Yancey
Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The
— Philip Yancey
What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse
— Philip Yancey