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What's So Amazing About Grace?

Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew

Philip Yancey

What's So Amazing About Grace?

Philip Yancey

The Jesus I Never Knew

Philip Yancey

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“Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”

Philip Yancey

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

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

Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?

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

Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?

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

Philip Yancey

Source: Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church

“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.”

Philip Yancey

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

Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey Quotes about love

“Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.”

Philip Yancey book The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

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

Philip Yancey book What's So Amazing About Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?

“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.”

Philip Yancey

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

Philip Yancey

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

Philip Yancey

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

Philip Yancey Quotes about God

“Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.”

Philip Yancey

“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.”

Philip Yancey book The Jesus I Never Knew

Source: The Jesus I Never Knew

“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.”

Philip Yancey

Source: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

“Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.”

Philip Yancey