Quotes from Philip Yancey
God has entrusted flawed human beings with a message so powerful that it sometimes does its work in spite of us.
- Philip Yancey
Today, if I had to answer the question "Where is God when it hurts?" in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: "Where is the church when it hurts?" We form the front line of God's response to the suffering world.
- Philip Yancey
12Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 13Yet Pharaoh's heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
- Philip Yancey
Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life," said Roemer after the filming.
- Philip Yancey
Wise companions learn to seek out the delicate balance between offering help and offering too much help.
- Philip Yancey
People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.
- Philip Yancey
Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.
- Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.
- Philip Yancey
The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.
- Philip Yancey
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.
- Philip Yancey
What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap
- Philip Yancey
The Israelites give ample proof that signs may only addict us to signs, not to God.
- Philip Yancey