Best Philip Yancey Sayings
- People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen. Days
- Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid. Bit
- All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness. All
- We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness. Cut
- It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn. Easy
- The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out. All
- The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through. All
- When I am tempted to complain about God's lack of presence, I remind myself that God has much more reason to complain about my lack… Complain
- In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love. Extravagant
- Homeless people bear God's image too. Bear
- I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will. Funny
- Someone asked the Swiss physician & author Paul Tournier how he helped his patients get rid of their fears. He replied, 'I don't. Everything that's… All
- No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument. Argument
- Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are.… Astounding
- Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. Already Loves
- True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. Attempt
- By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done. Already Done
- We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and… All
- Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God… Atonement
- Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse. Bears
- Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution. Call
- Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up. Bottom
- Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all? All
- The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace. Grace
- Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. Cast
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