Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants... In the West, it will take one with soul force equal to Gandhi's to change the prevailing dogma of ever increasing GNP. We may be forced to change our profligate ways some day, when the soil is depleted, the aquifers drained, the icecaps melted, and all the oil wells pumped dry. But the crisis will wait another fifty years or so; we'll leave those problems to a generation yet unborn.
Philip YanceyTrue 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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
Philip YanceyBy focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
Philip YanceyAt the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
Philip Yancey