Religion Quotes by Philip Yancey

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do…

— Philip Yancey

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

— Philip Yancey

“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.”

— Philip Yancey

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

— Philip Yancey

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

— Philip Yancey

Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.

— Philip Yancey

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

— Philip Yancey

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

— Philip Yancey

“I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like "What good does it do to pray if God…

— 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

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

“The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through…

— 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 New Testament holds up the model of a church whose activities exist primarily for the sake of outsiders. What keeps us…

— Philip Yancey

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong……

— 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

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

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which…

— 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

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -…

— 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

Eugene Peterson points out that "the root meaning in Hebrew of salvation is to be broad, to become spacious, to enlarge. It…

— 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

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

— Philip Yancey

I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the…

— Philip Yancey

Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

— Philip Yancey

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

— Philip Yancey

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

— Philip Yancey

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

— Philip Yancey

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

— Philip Yancey

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

— Philip Yancey

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

“I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.”

— Philip Yancey

“Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

— Philip Yancey