I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do… — 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
“Somehow, that “faith” was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“the New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform… — 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
“I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like "What good does it do to pray if God… — 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 say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — 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
Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume.… — 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
We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I once heard a theologian remark that in the Gospels people approached Jesus with a question 183 times whereas he replied with… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the… — 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
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” — 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 Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community. — 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
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive. — 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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