People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will;… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor… — 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
Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am… — 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
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There… — 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
“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
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