Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — 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
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
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me. — 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
John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society,… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it… — 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
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For… — 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 have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies… — 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
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us. — 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… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature… — 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
“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
