503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to dispense grace to others.

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.