Philip Yancey Quotes

“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”

“Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.”

“Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.”

“If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.”

“I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.”

“God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.”

“When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.”

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”

“In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.”

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”

“Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.”

“Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.”

“Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.”

“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”

“Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.”

“Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.”

“I would far rather convey grace than explain it.”

“We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.”