Philip Yancey Quotes

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

God will not move unless I say it. Why? because He has made us coworkers with Him. He set things up that way.

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The world is out of order. It's been broken since you came.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world.

Lord, here am I, send me, I will redeem every son and daughter of Adam and Eve that lives on the earth, or that ever goes on the earth.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

Our call is to be God's agents, to rescue not only the human race but the whole of creation.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.

Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.

I keep God first. He me to go out and act and be humble and keep it simple. God gave me this gift to bless the world. That's what I'm here to do.