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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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.
genius world bears
For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
effort world unseen
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
powerful believe grace
Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.
lonely pain love-you
To 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 shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
grace lenses unnoticed
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
grace cost giver
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
easter evil religion
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
squares risk church
In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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.
prayer want-something desire
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
humility church world
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.
people grace church
The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.
faith morning son
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)