Philip Yancey Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.

  Philip Yancey

  Gratitude, Great Love, Doe

  Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.112, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

• The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.

  Philip Yancey

  Easter, Evil, Religion

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.151, Harper Collins

• The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we deserved the opposite. Christ came down from heaven, and whenever his disciples entertained dreams of prestige and power he reminded them that the greatest is the one who serves. The ladder of power reaches up, the ladder of grace reaches down.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Dream, Opposites

  Philip Yancey (2008). “What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.180, Zondervan

• John Wesley taught that the gospel of Christ involved more than saving souls. It should have an impact on all of society, and his followers worked to accomplish just that. They were dispensing grace to the broader world, and in the process their spirit helped change a nation, saving it from the revolutionary chaos that had spread across Europe.

  Philip Yancey

  Impact, Should Have, Europe

• I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Return, Would Be

• Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have hurt worse.

  Philip Yancey

  Hurt, Church, Body

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.71, Harper Collins

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