Philip Yancey Quotes

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in order for all Christians to transform themselves into 'witnesses,' ready and able to shoulder the commitment of testifying - always and to everyone - to the hope that animates them.

I want people to know that LeCrae the person is a Christian. Just because you put a tag on me or my music that doesn't make me or the music more or less of a Christian. I'd hope the legacy that I'd leave that people say... No, he's not a Christian because he said he was or because his stuff was labeled that. He's a Christian because he lived it! And when you know him and you know his life this is someone whose life is marked by Jesus.

Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.

One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!

We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.

I want to remain distinct and authentically Christian in whatever realm I'm in. That's really what my aim is, for people to see I truly treasure and value Jesus and His Word.

Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.

The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.

Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life.

I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

Are we ready to be Christians full-time, showing our commitment by word and deed?

The task of the church is to make the invisible Kingdom visible through faithful Christian living and witness-bearing .

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'

Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.