God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And yet when I wish to explore how faith works, I usually sneak in by the back door of doubt, for I… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.… — 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
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos… — 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… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Religious faith—for all its problems, despite its maddening tendency to replicate ungrace—lives on because we sense the numinous beauty of a gift… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in… — 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
