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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
Philip Yancey
Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
Philip Yancey
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
Philip Yancey
It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
Philip Yancey
On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
Philip Yancey
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
Philip Yancey
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
Philip Yancey
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
Philip Yancey
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
Philip Yancey
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
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
Philip Yancey
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
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.
Philip Yancey
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
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
Philip Yancey
We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
Philip Yancey
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
Philip Yancey
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
Philip Yancey
People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
Philip Yancey
