Philip Yancey





Philip Yancey

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What's So Amazing About Grace? What's So Amazing About Grace?
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.30 — 1,076 ratings — published 1997
23 editions
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The Jesus I Never Knew The Jesus I Never Knew
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.17 — 688 ratings — published 1995
19 editions
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Prayer: Does It Make Any Diffe... Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.04 — 315 ratings — published 2006
11 editions
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Disappointment with God Disappointment with God
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.13 — 300 ratings — published 1988
13 editions
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Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Un... Soul Survivor: How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.18 — 293 ratings — published 2001
12 editions
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Reaching for the Invisible God Reaching for the Invisible God
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.00 — 258 ratings — published 2000
5 editions
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Where Is God When It Hurts? Where Is God When It Hurts?
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 4.08 — 234 ratings — published 1979
17 editions
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The Bible Jesus Read The Bible Jesus Read
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 3.92 — 176 ratings — published 1999
11 editions
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Rumors of Another World: What... Rumors of Another World: What on Earth Are We Missing?
by Philip Yancey
avg rating 3.73 — 167 ratings — published 2003
7 editions
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
by Philip Yancey, Paul Brand
avg rating 4.39 — 76 ratings — published 1993
2 editions
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"To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God who does not control his Son's suffering? But another sound can be heard: the shout of a God crying out to human beings, "I LOVE YOU." Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.


Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. "
Philip Yancey
2 editions
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""God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly. That, I believe, is the central message of Job. Satan had taunted God with the accusation that humans are not truly free. Was Job being faithful simply because God had allowed him a prosperous life? Job's fiery trials proved the answer beyond doubt. Job clung to God's justice when he was the best example in history of God's apparent injustice. He did not seek the Giver because of his gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver." -Yancey pg 91

"[Job] by standing on his own in the midst of suffering, without the benefit of soothing answers, gained powerful new strength. As Rabbi Abraham Heschel has said, 'Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken.' " - Yancey pg 92 "
Philip Yancey (Where Is God When It Hurts?)
2 editions
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"Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part."
Philip Yancey
2 editions
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