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
messengers messages peril
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
differences people done
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
people bears homeless
Homeless people bear God's image too.
grace trying rubber
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
jesus mean 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.
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.
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 company
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
punishment wrath serving-god
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
grace alternatives harder
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
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.
conservative sometimes feels
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
justice unbreakable accepted
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.