I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery… — 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… — 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
“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
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he… — 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 operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes… — 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
To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who… — 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
“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
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong…… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person… — 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
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the… — 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
