Jesus Quotes by Philip Yancey

All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

— Philip Yancey

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

— Philip Yancey

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

— Philip Yancey

The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

— Philip Yancey

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

— Philip Yancey

[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

— Philip Yancey

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

— Philip Yancey

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of…

— Philip Yancey

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and…

— Philip Yancey

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who…

— Philip Yancey

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads…

— 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

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about…

— Philip Yancey

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it…

— Philip Yancey

I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with…

— 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

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends.…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word…

— Philip Yancey

When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.…

— Philip Yancey

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God…

— Philip Yancey

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…

— Philip Yancey

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will;…

— 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

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill…

— 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

[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely…

— 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

Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the…

— 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

Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what…

— Philip Yancey

When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes…

— Philip Yancey

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

The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and…

— 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

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization…

— Philip Yancey

Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious…

— Philip Yancey