503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

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.

Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.