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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Philip Yancey quotes about
easter evil religion
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
grace cost giver
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
powerful believe grace
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
doe manipulate position
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
healing people grace
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.
grace alternatives harder
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
church trying claims
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.
justice unbreakable accepted
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
prayer company
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
divorce simple opposites
I am learning that mature faith, which encompasses both simple faith and fidelity, works the opposite of paranoia. It reassembles all the events of life around trust in a loving God. When good things happen, I accept them as gifts from God, worthy of thanksgiving. When bad things happen, I do not take them as necessarily sent by God -- I see evidence in the Bible to the contrary -- and I find in them no reason to divorce God. Rather, I trust that God can use even those bad things for my benefit.
prayer declaration dependence
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
punishment wrath serving-god
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
conservative sometimes feels
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
attitude parent use
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.