Quotes from Philip Yancey

For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.

There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.

God already knows who we are; we are the ones who must find a way to come to terms with our true selves.

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

To justify Christianity because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion

God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.

the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

Be still and know that I am God." I read in this familiar verse from Psalm 46 two commands of equal importance. First, I must be still, something that modern life conspires against. Ten years ago I responded to letters within a couple of weeks and kept my correspondents happy. Five years ago I faxed a response in a couple of days and they seemed content. Now they want email responses the same day and berate me for not using instant messaging or a mobile phone.

it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.

Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.