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

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

— Philip Yancey

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

— Philip Yancey

People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

— Philip Yancey

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get…

— Philip Yancey

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

— Philip Yancey

“I have marveled at, and sometimes openly questioned, the self-restraint God has shown throughout history, allowing the Genghis Khans and the Hitlers…

— Philip Yancey

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which…

— Philip Yancey

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the…

— 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

I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

— Philip Yancey

“What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?”

— Philip Yancey

“For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that…

— Philip Yancey

It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.

— 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

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

— Philip Yancey

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

— Philip Yancey

“the healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts. In”

— Philip Yancey

“grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.”

— Philip Yancey

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

— Philip Yancey

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…

— Philip Yancey

“It was not pastoral teaching, or small group fellowship, or worship services, or books of theology — rather, they mentioned suffering. “People…

— Philip Yancey

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

— Philip Yancey