Philip Yancey quotes

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God. (Philip Yancey)
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them. View quote
Philip Yancey
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks. View quote
Philip Yancey
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us. View quote
Philip Yancey
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 powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog. View quote
Philip Yancey
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 renounced the one for the sake of the other. View quote
Philip Yancey
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. View quote
Philip Yancey
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part. View quote
Philip Yancey
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, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person. View quote
Philip Yancey
God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are. View quote
Philip Yancey
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 reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment. (Philip Yancey)
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. View quote
Philip Yancey
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet. View quote
Philip Yancey
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. View quote
Philip Yancey
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost. View quote
Philip Yancey
Love deems this world worth rescuing. View quote
Philip Yancey
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. View quote
Philip Yancey
I would far rather convey grace than explain it. View quote
Philip Yancey
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. View quote
Philip Yancey
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive. View quote
Philip Yancey
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families. (Philip Yancey)
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated. View quote
Philip Yancey
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love. View quote
Philip Yancey
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort. View quote
Philip Yancey
Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest. View quote
Philip Yancey