Quotes related to Ephesians 4:32
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
— Philip Yancey
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
— Philip Yancey
Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
— Philip Yancey
He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
— Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
— Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
— Philip Yancey
Does the Christian emphasis on love, grace, and forgiveness have any relevance outside quarreling families or church encounter groups? In a world where force matters most, a lofty ideal like forgiveness may seem as insubstantial as vapor.
— Philip Yancey
Why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.
— Philip Yancey