I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 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
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus never tried to hide his loneliness and dependence on other people. He chose his disciples not as servants but as friends.… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say… — 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
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project. — 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
