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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debtors giver universe
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
pain grace scandal
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
christian palaces needs
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
understanding true-understanding exposed
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
promise realization haunting
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
love-is evil-people grace
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "loveworthiness." Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
christian sin angry
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
jesus birth-defects grace
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.
heart surrender power-of-love
At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
prayer important use
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
spiritual humility maturity
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
prayer believe irritation
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.
jesus organization feet
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 elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
broken agents world
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.