Quotes from Philip Yancey

True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.

Homeless people bear God's image too.

We, Jesus' followers, are the agents assigned to carry out God's will on earth. Too easily we expect God to do something for us when instead God wants to do it through us.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

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

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

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

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

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

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

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.