Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks. Philip Yancey More Quotes by Philip Yancey More Quotes From Philip Yancey We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love. Philip Yancey serving-godpunishmentwrath Some things just have to be believed to be seen. Philip Yancey Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. Philip Yancey conservativefeelssometimes 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 churchclaimstrying 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 manipulatepositiondoe We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church. Philip Yancey churchprincipleschristian Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day. Philip Yancey religiouspeoplejesus 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 gracelawjesus The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it. Philip Yancey graceworldfall Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less Philip Yancey god-lovegracemean 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 importantuseprayer We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out. Philip Yancey concernedturnsspiritual Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. Philip Yancey prayerviewsreality 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 want-somethingprayerdesire Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them. Philip Yancey unnoticedlensesgrace To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." 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. Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. Philip Yancey painlonelylove-you The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative. Philip Yancey harderalternativesgrace We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination. Philip Yancey destinationjourneyremember God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are. Philip Yancey who-god-iswho-we-arepeople 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 sufferingmatterjesus
