I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — 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
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For… — 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… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions… — 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
“the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“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 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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