The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Faith, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Sometimes God seemed as close as his wife or children. Sometimes he had no sense of God's presence, no faith to lean… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Somehow, that “faith” was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Where is God when it hurts? We know one answer because God came to earth and showed us. You need only follow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy. Nor does it offer insurance against feelings of doubt and betrayal. If anything, being… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. — Philip Yancey Copy Share
“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers and the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group:… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey Copy Share
“What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?” — Philip Yancey Copy Share
“For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that life is… — Philip Yancey Copy Share
