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Church Quotes by Philip Yancey
- In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
- Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.
- Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's…
- We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
- 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.
- I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
- I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
- As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God…
- The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a…
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