Quotes from Philip Yancey

I find a simple answer in the Bible's overarching theme that God is love. That quality, more than anything else, makes clear the reason behind all creation. Love cannot really exist without an object to receive it.

Jesus' prayer for Peter shows the same pattern in sharp relief. Satan partially got his way with Peter, sifting him like wheat. But in answer to Jesus' prayer, the sifting rid Peter of his least attractive qualities: blustery self-confidence, a chip on his shoulder, a propensity to violence.

Allen Yuan had served a term of twenty-two years at hard labor for holding unauthorized church meetings in China.

about the key to something many Christ-followers often talk and pray about: genuine revival.

Highlight – Genesis 24:3 Marrying Foreigners From this earliest period of Israelite history, there was an emphasis on not marrying foreigners. The reason had to do with religion, not race—in many cases foreigners were distant relatives, but they worshiped false gods. When foreigners were willing to worship Israel's God, they were welcomed (see the book of Ruth, for example).

Y el mundo que nos observa, juzga a Dios por aquellos que llevan su nombre. En gran medida, la desilusión con Dios brota de la desilusión con los demás cristianos.

Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.

The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.

as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a fear, of which I may not be afraid.

A lo largo de toda la Biblia, en especial en los libros de los profetas, vemos a Dios debatirse en un conflicto interno. Por una parte, amaba apasionadamente a las personas que había creado; por otra, sentía el terrible impulso de destruir al Mal que la esclavizaba. En la cruz, Dios resolvió ese conflicto interno, porque en ella su Hijo absorbió la fuerza destructiva para transformarla en amor. Citas

For people who have long-term disabilities, one of the best things we can do is to provide tools that allow them to resume "normal" activity.

prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God's grace.

forgiveness is an act of faith.

Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

The gospel of grace begins and ends with forgiveness. And people write songs with titles like "Amazing Grace" for one reason: grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations. Grace alone melts ungrace.

By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.

involvement with others was the most effective in quelling her pain.

It was no accident, I believe, that Jesus spoke his triumphant words, I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD, even as Roman soldiers were buckling on weapons for his arrest. He knew how to judge the present by the future.

suffering can serve as instruments to teach us the value of dependence, and unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace. The apostle Paul gave the Corinthians an

Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.

Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.