Christianity Quotes by Philip Yancey

“A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through “grace-tinted lenses.”

— Philip Yancey

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

— Philip Yancey

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

— Philip Yancey

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

“What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?”

— Philip Yancey

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

— Philip Yancey

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

— Philip Yancey

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with…

— Philip Yancey

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing…

— Philip Yancey

“The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through…

— Philip Yancey

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

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

— Philip Yancey

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to…

— Philip Yancey

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something…

— Philip Yancey

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

“For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that…

— 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

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

— Philip Yancey

Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through…

— Philip Yancey

Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature…

— 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

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

— Philip Yancey

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But…

— Philip Yancey

“…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to…

— Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in…

— Philip Yancey

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

— Philip Yancey

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

— Philip Yancey

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

— Philip Yancey

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

— Philip Yancey

“A clear pattern soon emerged, as demonstrated by many polls: the more prominently Christians entered the political arena, the more negatively they…

— Philip Yancey

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

If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel…

— Philip Yancey

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that…

— Philip Yancey

“Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, "I am come that they might have life,…

— Philip Yancey

“The atheistic philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was once asked what made him so negative toward Christians. He replied, “I would believe in their…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute,…

— Philip Yancey

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society,…

— Philip Yancey