Philip Yancey: Quotes about love

Philip Yancey is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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?

Source: What's So Amazing About Grace?

Love , Way

“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

Love , God , Suffering

“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 , God , Personality

“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?

Love , God , People

“Love deems this world worth rescuing.”

Philip Yancey
Love , World

“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
Love , Law , Motivation

“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

Love