Best Philip Yancey Words
- To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control… Accepted
- Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive. Alive
- We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. Admit
- Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent… Acknowledge
- Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part. Flow
- Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. Among
- We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical… Confuse
- I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Advance
- Love deems this world worth rescuing. Deems
- We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. Faith
- Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God… Absorbs
- Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in… Elements
- When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does,… Another Person
- Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and… Birth
- Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Angry
- I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the… Abuser
- prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible… Amount
- Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and… Absolute
- If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian… Act
- We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination. Bible
- Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. Cannot Control
- A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change. Change
- I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family. Church
- I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. Church
- I would far rather convey grace than explain it. Convey
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