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
christian jesus mean
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.
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.
mean grace god-love
Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
christian mean perfect
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
meaningful community independence
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
jesus mean world
The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
mean grace infinite
Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
inspirational mean i-have-learned
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
prayer mean grace
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.
faith pain believe
A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.
great prayers reverence
Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.
good testament toward
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
god mysterious outrage
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.