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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god jobs giver
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
community intellectual christianity
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.
christian asking should
We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
prayer race goal
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.
land safety grace
Thunderously, 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. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.
important important-things can-do
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
journey heaven forget
Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
matter individual formulas
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
wall suffering doe
When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
pain caring endure
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,
reflecting-back mirrors church
All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
knowing-god knows
I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.
jesus way old-testament
The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
jesus pride hypocrisy
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.