I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through “grace-tinted lenses.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who… — 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
Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God… — 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 represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to… — 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
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which… — 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
The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles… — 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 self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We… — 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
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project. — 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
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
Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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