Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
Philip YanceyI never seeย God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
Philip YanceyC. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
Philip YanceyGod must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
Philip Yancey