Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

— Philip Yancey

Much of the misgiving that Muslims feel for the West stems from our strong emphasis on freedom, always a risky enterprise. I've heard some say they would rather rear their children in a closely guarded Islamic society than in the United States, where freedom so often leads to decadence.

— Philip Yancey

No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same.

— Philip Yancey

Often a work of God comes with two edges, great joy and great pain, and in that matter-of-fact response Mary embraced both. She was the first person to accept Jesus on His own terms, regardless of the personal cost.

— Philip Yancey

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matroska “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

— Philip Yancey

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

— Philip Yancey

People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.

— Philip Yancey

Philip Dance sees our blasé attitude toward the faithfulness of God in the waitstaff At Yellowstone. Even when they are finished their chores, they don't look up and marvel at the laser going off. After all, they see it so often.

— Philip Yancey

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

— 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