Quotes from Philip Yancey
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
- Philip Yancey
Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
- Philip Yancey
God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
- Philip Yancey
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
- Philip Yancey
... 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.
- Philip Yancey
We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
- Philip Yancey
Love deems this world worth rescuing.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
- Philip Yancey
Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
- Philip Yancey
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God's wrath and get God's love.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
- Philip Yancey