Philip Yancey Short Quotes

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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

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

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There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.

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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.

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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

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Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

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Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

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Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God's wrath and get God's love.

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Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

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Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

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A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

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Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

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Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?

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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

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We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.

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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

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