Quotes from Philip Yancey
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
- Philip Yancey
Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention
- Philip Yancey
What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth?
- Philip Yancey
Augustine's Confessions...What it is, therefore, he begins, that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?
- Philip Yancey
The world starves for grace.
- Philip Yancey
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
- Philip Yancey
Others of us, rightly concerned about issues in a modern "culture war," neglect the church's mission as a haven of grace in this world of ungrace.
- Philip Yancey
Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.
- Philip Yancey
I wonder about the enormous energy being devoted these days to restoring morality to the United States. Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?
- Philip Yancey
I can never figure out how to have a friendly conversation with someone when my main point is that they are going to Hell.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.
- Philip Yancey