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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CountryUnited States of America
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.
prayer declaration dependence
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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.