Latest Philip Yancey Quotes from Interviews

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• I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

  Philip Yancey

  Thinking, People, And Love

  Source: www.pbs.org

• One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than good. People don't need our words. They mainly need our presence, they need our love. And if you come in too quickly with explanations, you may do more harm than good.

  Philip Yancey

  People, Needs, Our Words

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.

  Philip Yancey

  Pain, People, Evil

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

  Philip Yancey

  Grace, Heartfelt, Favors

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

  Philip Yancey

  Grace, Church, Spirit

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

  Philip Yancey

  Hands, Free Gifts, Grace

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• There is an "offense" to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

  Philip Yancey

  Judging, Choices, Humanity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

  Philip Yancey

  Grace, Trying, Rubber

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• 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

  Religious, Jesus, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Love is an overarching style of relating to another.

  Philip Yancey

  Love Is, Style

  Source: www.biblegateway.com