Philip Yancey
Philip Yancey
Philip Yanceyis an American Christian author. Fourteen million copies of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace? in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing and Hachette...
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CountryUnited States of America
Philip Yancey quotes about
christian country nice
I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there's so many distractions.
tree doctrine lightning-bolts
If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.
doe his-love love-and-forgiveness
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
christian asking should
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
want-something want ifs
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
suffering way different
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
spiritual jesus exercise
When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
community intellectual christianity
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
jesus giving world
The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
prayer voice giving
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.
grace pharisees entitlement
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
matter individual formulas
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
doubt needs certainty
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
christian jesus differences
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.