Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
Philip YanceyGrace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
Philip YanceyWhat a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
Philip YanceyJesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.
Philip YanceySometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
Philip YanceyThunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.
Philip Yancey