Quotes about Doubt
Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
— Philip Yancey
I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like What good does it do to pray if God already knows everything? Jesus silences such questions: he prayed, so should we.
— Philip Yancey
The question {WHY}, though, never goes away-- not for me, not for anybody. We keep groping toward light while living in darkness.
— Philip Yancey
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
— Philip Yancey
The worst moment for the atheist is
— Philip Yancey
positioned myself. I once described the people I tend to hear from as "borderlanders," those caught in a no-person's-land between faith and disbelief. Some approach the church cautiously, attracted to Jesus but turned off by his followers. Some have fled the church due to bad experiences, yet still yearn for the consolation they felt there. I've spent time in the borderlands myself and want to honor those wandering on the edges, the misfits.
— Philip Yancey
I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.
— Philip Yancey
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.
— Philip Yancey
Prayer is a subversive act performed in a world that constantly calls faith into question.
— Philip Yancey
My feelings of God's presence — or God's absence — are not the presence or the absence.
— Philip Yancey
Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take
— Philip Yancey
In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)
— Philip Yancey