Philip YanceyThe Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. ✨ Philip Yancey (2009). Disappointment with God: Three Question… ▶371Love
Philip YanceyPleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger. ✨ Philip Yancey (2002). The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide… ▶372ReadingTime
Philip YanceyAcross time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. ✨ Philip Yancey, James C. Schaap (2002). More than words: contemporary … ▶361HumanityReadingThought
Philip YanceyNature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes o… ▶374Time
Philip YanceyPower can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love. ✨ Philip Yancey (2009). Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud, p.53, Harpe… ▶352LovePolitics
Philip YanceyAs the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may… ▶342Reading
Philip YanceyHomeless people bear God's image too. ✨ Philip Yancey, Eugene H. Paterson (2001). Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage, p.82, Zondervan365Humanity
Philip YanceyWe're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.365Sadness
Philip YanceyTo some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the s… ▶332HumanityLoveSadness
Philip YanceyThunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters.… ▶365HumanityPoliticsThought
Philip YanceyAll of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.311Sadness
Philip YanceyIf my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace. ✨ Philip Yancey (2009). Grace… ▶333LovePolitics
Philip YanceyLike 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 dul… ▶344LifeThoughtTime
Philip YanceyWe should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.367Reading
Philip YanceyBe salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.323Humanity
Philip YanceyPolitics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (raci… ▶356HumanityLovePolitics
Philip YanceySome things just have to be believed to be seen. ✨ Philip Yancey (2009). Grace Notes, p.72, Harper Collins367Death
Philip YanceyWe 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 exa… ▶323LifeThoughtTruth
Philip YanceyIf Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him. ✨ Philip Yancey (1995). The Jesus I Never Knew, p.23, Harper Collins345Sadness
Philip YanceyIn no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square ✨ Philip Yancey (1997). What's So Amazing about Grace?, p.229, Harper Collins… ▶356Politics
Philip YanceyThe 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. ✨ Phili… ▶324Reading
Philip YanceyThe self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.379Life
Philip YanceySometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. ✨ Soul Survivor. Book by Philip Yancey, 2001.324ReadingTime
Philip YanceyI would far rather convey grace than explain it. ✨ Philip Yancey (1997). What's So Amazing about Grace?, p.16, Harper Collins379Sadness
Philip YanceyImperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.346Politics
Philip YanceyWe should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?292Humanity
Philip YanceyWhen the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out… ▶303Hope
Philip YanceyWe admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny. ✨ Philip Yancey (2002). Soul Surviv… ▶3710HopeHumanityLife
Philip YanceyI have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse. ✨ Finding God in Unexpected Places. Book by Philip Yancey, 1995.347HopeReading
Philip YanceyChristians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.281Humor
