Quote

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Philip Yancey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
Author
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Compassion
Come
Love
Mercy

More quotes by Philip Yancey

Image
Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
Philip Yancey
Image
Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
Philip Yancey
Image
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
Philip Yancey
Image
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
Image
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
Philip Yancey
Image
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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
Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
Philip Yancey
Image
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
Philip Yancey
Image
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
Image
The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Philip Yancey
Image
... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
Philip Yancey
Image
Release what is good.
Philip Yancey
Image
Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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
The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
Philip Yancey
Image
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
Philip Yancey
Image
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