Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
Philip YanceyAcross time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
Philip YanceyWhen 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.
Philip YanceyI rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
Philip YanceyWhoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
Philip Yancey