For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.
Philip YanceyAll of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.
Philip YanceyWe grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
Philip YanceyThe giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip YanceyHenri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed his approach from "selling pearls," or peddling the good news, to "hunting for the treasure" already present in those he was called to love - a shift from dispensing religion to dispensing grace. It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.
Philip Yancey