503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am trying in my own small way to pipe the tune of grace. I do so because I know, more surely than I know anything, that any pang of healing or forgiveness or goodness I have ever felt comes solely from the grace of God.

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.