The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive. — 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
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
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.” — 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
“I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.… — 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
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
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God;… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am… — 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
Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can… — 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.… — 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
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and… — 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
We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for… — 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
Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue. — 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
Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what… — 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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