Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 12:9
Grace, however, is not about fairness.
— Philip Yancey
when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.
— Philip Yancey
There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
— Philip Yancey
Self-sufficiency, which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet away from God.
— Philip Yancey
Justice has a good and righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural.
— Philip Yancey
unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a spiritual nova in our midst exerting a force stronger than vengeance, stronger than racism, stronger than hate.
— Philip Yancey
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
— Philip Yancey
A church that lives by power dies by power.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus' kingdom calls us to another way, one that depends not on our performance but his own. We do not have to achieve but merely follow.
— Philip Yancey