Top 100 Philip Yancey Quotes

#1. Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

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#2. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

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#3. When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.

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#4. Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.

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#5. I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

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#6. The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

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#7. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

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

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#9. We cannot make Him visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him," said Abraham Joshua Heschel

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The

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#13. We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

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#14. Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

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#15. The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

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#16. The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

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#17. The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

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#18. I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

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#19. Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about - like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.

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#20. The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?

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#21. Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified. - Mahatma Gandhi

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#22. We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

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#23. People who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them.2

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#24. Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

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#25. People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

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#26. Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

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#27. Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers

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#28. God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

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#29. You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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#30. I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

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#31. When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

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#32. The only effective antidote to the wickedness around us is to live differently from this moment forward.

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#33. 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.

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#34. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot nor cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

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

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#36. Suffering can never ultimately be meaningless, because God has shared it.

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#37. The core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

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#38. Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

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#39. We are inconsistent, said Mother Teresa, to care about violence, and to care about hungry children in places like India and Africa, and yet not care about the millions who are killed by the deliberate choice of their own mothers.

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#40. People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

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#41. The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

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#42. 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?

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#43. The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

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#44. A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

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#45. Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

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#46. Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3

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#47. Fulfillment comes not in pursuit of happiness, but rather in pursuit of service.

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#48. Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

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#49. One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.

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#50. What practically defines the evangelical church today is an emphasis on two issues that Jesus did not even mention.

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#51. God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

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#52. The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

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#53. We persevere because we believe rewards will come.

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#54. Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.

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#55. In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

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#56. God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 - Philip Yancey

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#57. But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

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#58. All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.

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#59. As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.

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#60. Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

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#61. As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

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#62. He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

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#63. Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him down on the ice.

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

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#65. Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.

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#66. Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

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#67. The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

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#68. God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?

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#69. It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

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#70. I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

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#71. They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

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#72. A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.

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#73. Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

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#74. Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

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#75. The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.

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#76. [ ... ]women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?

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#77. As a committed Christian, I wanted to discover what adjustments we might need to make in order to communicate the good news to our friends, neighbors, coworkers.

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#78. At times, God's history seems to operate on an entirely different plane than ours ... Exodus identifies by name the two Hebrew midwives who helped save Moses' life, but it does not bother to record the name of the Pharaoh ruling Egypt (an omission that has baffled scholars ever since).

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#79. Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

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#80. According to Barna surveys, 61 percent of today's youth had been churched at one point during their teen years but are now spiritually disengaged.

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#81. Love deems this world worth rescuing.

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#82. We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

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#83. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

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#84. What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

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#85. We have not, it seems, the power to abstain from worship. Instead, we swallow the sweet poison, substituting lesser gods for God.

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#86. It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.

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#87. One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

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#88. We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

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#89. Homeless people bear God's image too.

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#90. One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.

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#91. We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

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#92. Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.

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#93. Don't judge Christ by those of us who imperfectly bear his name.

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#94. In China, where you can be arrested and imprisoned for your faith, getting together with other Christians is a lifeline and you'll risk anything for the privilege. No one attends church in China casually, or for a social advantage - quite the opposite.

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#95. God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

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#96. Edward Gibbon said that in ancient Rome all religions were to the people equally true, to the philosophers equally false, and to the government equally useful.

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#97. Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.

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#98. Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

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#99. 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.

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#100. If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

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