503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed his approach from "selling pearls," or peddling the good news, to "hunting for the treasure" already present in those he was called to love - a shift from dispensing religion to dispensing grace. It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.