Quotes from Philip Yancey
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
- Philip Yancey
True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
- Philip Yancey
Homeless people bear God's image too.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.
- Philip Yancey
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
- Philip Yancey
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
- Philip Yancey
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
- Philip Yancey
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
- Philip Yancey
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
- Philip Yancey