Quotes from Philip Yancey

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down.

the early discrimination laws against the Jews—the "Jews Only" shops, park benches, rest rooms, and drinking fountains—were explicitly modeled on segregation laws in the United States.

a suffering person needs: love, and not knowledge and wisdom.

a hope for healing should be presented realistically. It is just that — a "hope," not a guarantee. If it comes, a joyous miracle has happened. If it doesn't come, God has not let you down.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.

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

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

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

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

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.