503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?