May Quotes by 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

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he…

— Philip Yancey

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these…

— Philip Yancey

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive.…

— 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

I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.

— Philip Yancey

And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on…

— Philip Yancey

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

— Philip Yancey

One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than…

— Philip Yancey

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…

— 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

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

As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say…

— Philip Yancey

Capitalism rules worldwide, and a society whose economic fabric depends on constant growth requires that its citizens have ever-expanding needs and wants...…

— Philip Yancey

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith…

— Philip Yancey

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos…

— Philip Yancey

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in…

— Philip Yancey