Quotes from Philip Yancey

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.

Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.