Philip Yancey

“A Franciscan Benediction”

— Philip Yancey

Release what is good.

— Philip Yancey

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

— Philip Yancey

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

— Philip Yancey

Homeless people bear God's image too.

— Philip Yancey

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

— Philip Yancey

“senseless. I prefer the word “buzzed,” following the brain/amplifier analogy.”

— Philip Yancey

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

— Philip Yancey

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

— Philip Yancey

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

— Philip Yancey

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

— Philip Yancey

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

— Philip Yancey

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

— Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

— Philip Yancey

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

— Philip Yancey

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

— Philip Yancey

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are…

— Philip Yancey

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive.…

— Philip Yancey

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

— Philip Yancey

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

— Philip Yancey

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

— Philip Yancey

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for…

— Philip Yancey

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to…

— Philip Yancey

“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers…

— Philip Yancey

The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always…

— Philip Yancey

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.…

— Philip Yancey

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…

— Philip Yancey

“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

I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of…

— Philip Yancey

I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow…

— Philip Yancey

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.…

— Philip Yancey

“One more, final question came from the audience on my last night in Newtown, and it was the one I most did…

— Philip Yancey

To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who…

— Philip Yancey

“As I have said, the Bible consistently changes the questions we bring to the problem of pain. It rarely, or ambiguously, answers…

— Philip Yancey

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information…

— Philip Yancey

Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It…

— Philip Yancey

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called…

— Philip Yancey

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

— Philip Yancey

If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

— Philip Yancey

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

— Philip Yancey