503 Quotes by Philip Yancey

Dependence, sorrow, repentance, a longing to change – these are the gates to God’s kingdom.

By striving to prove how much they deserve God’s love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don’t deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

That is the kind of shocking accessibility conveyed in Jesus’ word Abba. God may be the Sovereign Lord of the Universe, but through his Son, God has made himself as approachable as any doting human father.

I fear that our clumsy pronouncements, our name-calling, our hysteria about important issues – in short, our lack of grace – may in the end prove so damaging that society no longer looks to us for the guidance it needs.

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.

Evil’s greatest triumph may be its success in portraying religion as an enemy of pleasure when, in fact, religion accounts for its source: every good and enjoyable thing is the invention of a Creator who lavished gifts on the world.

If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live ‘worthy’ of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

Christians behave like spies, living in one world while our deepest allegiance belongs to another.

How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.