503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

We pray because we can’t help it. The.

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture?

The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace.

Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.

People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.

Perhaps the reason politics has proved such a snare for the church is that power rarely coexists with love. People in power draw up lists of friends and enemies, then reward their friends and punish their enemies. Christians are commanded to love even their enemies.

The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.