People Quotes by Philip Yancey

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

— Philip Yancey

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

— Philip Yancey

Homeless people bear God's image too.

— 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

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to…

— Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

— Philip Yancey

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery…

— Philip Yancey

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

— 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

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

— Philip Yancey

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

— Philip Yancey

Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people…

— Philip Yancey

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing…

— Philip Yancey

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of…

— Philip Yancey

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor…

— Philip Yancey

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people…

— Philip Yancey

By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a…

— 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

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.…

— Philip Yancey

Thanks to the scientific method, most people in "developed" countries have an outlook of mild deism. We assume things like weather and…

— Philip Yancey

If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are…

— 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

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am…

— Philip Yancey

Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature…

— Philip Yancey

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For…

— Philip Yancey

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called…

— Philip Yancey

I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the…

— Philip Yancey

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There…

— Philip Yancey

The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first…

— Philip Yancey

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your…

— Philip Yancey

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

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore…

— Philip Yancey

Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course,…

— 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

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for…

— 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

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to…

— 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

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of…

— 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