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
spiritual turns concerned
We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
nice people theologian
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
jesus prayer father
Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'
pleasure danger graves
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
butterfly artist wings
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
heart law knowing
You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
jesus able has-beens
If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
christian would-be unbroken
I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
opposites grace holiness
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
book essence feelings
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
spiritual humility people
Dependence, humility, simplicity, cooperation, and a sense of abandon are qualities greatly prized in the spiritual life, but extremely elusive for people who live in comfort.
fall feelings like-you
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
cutting understanding scum
We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.
jesus light darkness
All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.