Quotes from Philip Yancey

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

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.

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

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

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.