Quote

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

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
Suffering
Doe
World
Walls
Ignore
Suffer
Outside
Wall

More quotes by Philip Yancey

Image
I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
Philip Yancey
Image
The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
Philip Yancey
Image
Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
Philip Yancey
Image
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
Philip Yancey
Image
No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
Philip Yancey
Image
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
Philip Yancey
Image
Homeless people bear God's image too.
Philip Yancey
Image
The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
Philip Yancey
Image
The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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
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
Image
I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
Philip Yancey
Image
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Philip Yancey
Image
As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
Philip Yancey
Image
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
Image
There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
Philip Yancey
Image
I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
Philip Yancey
Image
Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
Philip Yancey
Image
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
Philip Yancey
Image
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
Philip Yancey