Philip Yancey Quotes
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Philip Yancey Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
We can't expect the nation to operate by Christian principles ... but we can expect this of the church.
Like a dying star, grace dissipates in a final burst of pale light, and is then engulfed by the black hole of ungrace.
Discovered that some of our efforts can actually drown out the good news and become stumbling blocks to faith.
And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.
As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair.
What practically defines the evangelical church today is an emphasis on two issues that Jesus did not even mention.
They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.
Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration.
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
The kingdom of God largely exists for the sake of outsiders, as a tangible expression of God's love for all.
Always, no matter the circumstances, we have the assurance of "Immanuel," which simply means "God with us.
We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.
The more Christians focus on tangential issues, the less we will be heard on matters of true moral significance.
All too often the church holds up a mirror
reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a
different way.
reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a
different way.
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
I have yet to find any support in the Bible for an attitude of smugness: Ah, they deserve their punishment; watch them squirm.
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.
Jesus' kingdom calls us to another way, one that depends not on our performance but his own. We do not have to achieve but merely follow.
We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.
According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.