Bible Quotes by Philip Yancey

The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.

— Philip Yancey

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

— Philip Yancey

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

— Philip Yancey

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

— Philip Yancey

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get…

— Philip Yancey

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about…

— Philip Yancey

“In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and…

— Philip Yancey

“They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.”

— Philip Yancey

I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them…

— Philip Yancey

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the…

— Philip Yancey

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has…

— Philip Yancey

I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to…

— 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

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

— Philip Yancey

As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He…

— Philip Yancey

“Rejoicing in suffering” does not mean Christians should act happy about tragedy and pain when they feel like crying. Rather, the Bible…

— Philip Yancey

“Bear one another’s burdens, the Bible says. It is a lesson about pain that we all can agree on. Some of us…

— 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