503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

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

Jesus’ story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day’s wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.

Sometimes the only meaning we can offer a suffering person is the assurance that their suffering, which has no apparent meaning for them, has a meaning for us.

Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a ‘cultural Christian’ who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as “those evil people” or “those poor people who need our help.” Nor must we search for signs of “loveworthiness.” Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we ‘honor’ another person – for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

We should leave a worship service asking ourselves not “What did I get out of it?” but rather “Was God pleased with what happened?

If we cannot detect God’s presence in the world, it may be that we have been looking in the wrong places.

Jesus was not crucified for being a good citizen, for being just a little nicer than everyone else. The powers of his day correctly saw him and his followers as subversives because they took orders from a higher power than Rome or Jerusalem. What would a subversive church look like in the modern United States?