The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God… — 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
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles… — 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
If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We… — 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
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is… — 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
Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and… — 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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