Gospel Of Philip Quotes

#1. If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.

Philip Yancey

#2. From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

Philip Yancey

#3. If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.

Philip Yancey

#4. Philip got out of God's way. He remembered that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

Rachel Held Evans

#5. Often the right path is the one that may be hardest for you to follow. But the hard path is also the one that will make you grow as a human being.

Karen Mueller Coombs

#6. Growth, 60 percent of India's workforce is self-employed, and 90 percent of India's labor force works in the unorganized sector.11

Arundhati Roy

#7. I can't even describe to anybody what it feels like to have my naked body shot across the world like a news flash against my will. It just makes me feel like a piece of meat that's being passed around for profit.

Jennifer Lawrence

#8. The approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms.

Philip Yancey

#9. There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

Philip Yancey

#10. It is a rare high school teacher who enjoys seeing their world being enormously improved upon by youths.

David James Duncan

#11. apathy is a disease and some days i long for it.

Zoe Trope

#12. A State can be no better than the citizens of which it is composed. Our labour now is not to mould States but make citizens.

Voltaire

#13. A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.

Philip Yancey

#14. 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.

Philip Yancey

#15. It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.

Philip Yancey

#16. A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

William Shatner

#17. I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#18. Moreover, conservative Christians have come to accept that Jesus' gospel applies to the whole person and not just the soul. Didn't Jesus inaugurate his own ministry with a declaration of good news for the poor, the oppressed, the prisoners, and the blind?

Philip Yancey

#19. The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

Philip Berrigan

#20. Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.

Philip Gulley

#21. We need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

Philip Yancey

#22. Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

Philip Schaff

#23. Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds!

Napoleon Hill

#24. Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?

Philip Yancey

#25. At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

Philip Yancey