“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
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are… — 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
“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — 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
“Somehow, that “faith” was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express… — 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
The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? — 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
“Followers of Jesus stake their claim on the firm belief that God will one day heal the planet of pain and death.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.” — 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
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He holds back for our… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — 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
“Faith, I’ve concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — 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
