Rumors of Another World Quotes

“I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“God’s gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things . . . as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“Puritans called marriage “the little church within the Church,” a place to test and also develop spiritual character. Every day marriage calls both partners to love and forgive and stay faithful — hard work that only makes sense if we are convinced somehow that we are participating in a kind of alternate history, one set in eternity. I persevere in the difficult times in my marriage for the same reason I persevere in the difficult times in my faith: because I believe that both touch something of eternal significance.”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“No society in history has attempted to live without a belief in the sacred, not until the modern West.”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Philip Yancey, Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?