World Quotes by Philip Yancey

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

— Philip Yancey

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

— Philip Yancey

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

— Philip Yancey

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

— Philip Yancey

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it…

— Philip Yancey

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

— Philip Yancey

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

— Philip Yancey

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

— Philip Yancey

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

— Philip Yancey

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward…

— 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

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the…

— Philip Yancey

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

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads…

— Philip Yancey

The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people…

— Philip Yancey

When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God…

— Philip Yancey

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There…

— 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

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to…

— Philip Yancey

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world,…

— Philip Yancey

Christians have an important role to play in contending that no human life is "devoid of value." We can do so through…

— Philip Yancey

Individuals and societies are not helpless victims of heredity. We have the power to change - not by looking "down" to nature…

— Philip Yancey

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For…

— Philip Yancey

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called…

— Philip Yancey

Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can…

— Philip Yancey

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

Perhaps the most powerful thing Christians can do to communicate to a skeptical world is to live fulfilled lives, exhibiting proof that…

— Philip Yancey

One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies…

— Philip Yancey

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks…

— Philip Yancey

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

— Philip Yancey

The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and…

— Philip Yancey

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

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But…

— Philip Yancey

John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society,…

— Philip Yancey

Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words…

— Philip Yancey

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it…

— Philip Yancey

Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious…

— Philip Yancey