Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less
Philip YanceyWe admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
Philip YanceyWe preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same drawing power. And for the truly needy, words alone don't satisfy; "A hungry person has no ears," as one relief worker told me. A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live.
Philip YanceyWe grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
Philip Yancey