Philip Yancey

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

— Philip Yancey

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

— Philip Yancey

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

— Philip Yancey

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

— Philip Yancey

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

— Philip Yancey

Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

— Philip Yancey

Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

— Philip Yancey

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

— Philip Yancey

Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have…

— Philip Yancey

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…

— Philip Yancey

We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions…

— Philip Yancey

“Ironically, (the church's) respect in the world declines in proportion to how vigorously we attempt to force others to adopt our point…

— Philip Yancey

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

— Philip Yancey

“According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.”

— Philip Yancey

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable…

— Philip Yancey

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab…

— Philip Yancey

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

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -…

— Philip Yancey

“Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of…

— Philip Yancey

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at…

— Philip Yancey

... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We…

— Philip Yancey

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong……

— Philip Yancey

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world,…

— Philip Yancey

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that…

— Philip Yancey

Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word…

— Philip Yancey

“We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not…

— Philip Yancey

“Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death.…

— Philip Yancey

“The suffering person faces choices. She can recoil in anger and despair against God. Or she can accept the trial as an…

— Philip Yancey

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks…

— Philip Yancey

“To judge God solely by the present world would be a tragic mistake. At one time, it may have been “the best…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to…

— Philip Yancey

“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted…

— Philip Yancey

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

— Philip Yancey

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

— Philip Yancey

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

— Philip Yancey

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

— Philip Yancey

“the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In”

— Philip Yancey

“If for whatever reason I refuse to trust God, what, then, can I trust?”

— Philip Yancey

“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”

— Philip Yancey

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

— Philip Yancey