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
people ornery unlikely
The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
christian water grace
Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love - and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.
christian grace guilt
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
christian mean issues
... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
christian views people
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
spiritual children views
As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his "eternal appetite" by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual "walk" with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
jesus church saws
[...]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
fall focus routine
Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
people want happens
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
christian dream opposites
The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.
fall best-effort church
Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
thinking people giving
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
news needs best-place
... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
christian palaces needs
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.