Philip Yancey God Quotations

It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.

The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

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

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

I do not get to know God and then do His will. I get to know Him by doing His will.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

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