Frases de Philip Yancey

„Continuo me armando com ideologias, pois as analogias são o único meio que temos para imaginar a história humana tal qual Deus a vê. Nós vemos história como uma sequência de quadros parados, um após outro, como num carretel de filme de cinema; mas Deus vê o filme todo de uma só vez, como num piscar de olhos.“

—  Philip Yancey

"Decepcionado com Deus", Mundo Cristão

„Os mais profundos anseios que, na qualidade de pais, de amantes, sentimos na terra são meros vislumbres do ávido desejo que Deus sente por nós. É um desejo que custou-lhe a encarnação e a crucificação.“

—  Philip Yancey

"Decepcionado com Deus", Mundo Cristão

„A única coisa mais difícil do que o perdão é a alternativa.“

—  Philip Yancey

Maravilhosa Graça, Editora Vida, ISBN 85373674125

„We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.“

—  Philip Yancey, livro What's So Amazing About Grace?

Fonte: What's So Amazing About Grace?

„I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.“

—  Philip Yancey

Variante: Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.
Fonte: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

„Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.“

—  Philip Yancey

„Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.“

—  Philip Yancey, livro The Jesus I Never Knew

Fonte: The Jesus I Never Knew

„Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.“

—  Philip Yancey

„Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.“

—  Philip Yancey

„When 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 Yancey

„God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.“

—  Philip Yancey, livro What's So Amazing About Grace?

Fonte: What's So Amazing About Grace?

„We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.“

—  Philip Yancey

Fonte: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

„I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.“

—  Philip Yancey

„Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.“

—  Philip Yancey

„Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.“

—  Philip Yancey

„Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.“

—  Philip Yancey

Fonte: Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud

„Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.“

—  Philip Yancey, livro What's So Amazing About Grace?

Fonte: What's So Amazing About Grace?

„Love deems this world worth rescuing.“

—  Philip Yancey

„If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.“

—  Philip Yancey