Quote

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

Philip Yancey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
Author
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Post
Posts
Respond
Asking
Society
Christian

More quotes by Philip Yancey

Image
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
Philip Yancey
Image
Release what is good.
Philip Yancey
Image
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
Philip Yancey
Image
We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
Philip Yancey
Image
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
Philip Yancey
Image
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
Philip Yancey
Image
Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
Philip Yancey
Image
God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
Philip Yancey
Image
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
Philip Yancey
Image
One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
Philip Yancey
Image
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
Philip Yancey
Image
... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
Philip Yancey
Image
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
Philip Yancey
Image
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.'
Philip Yancey
Image
The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
Philip Yancey
Image
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Philip Yancey
Image
Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
Philip Yancey
Image
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
Philip Yancey
Image
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
Image
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
Philip Yancey