Quotes related to Ephesians 2:8-9
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it
— Philip Yancey
Grace is unfair, which is one of the hardest things about it.
— Philip Yancey
Grace, however, is not about fairness.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
— Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
— Philip Yancey
unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.
— 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
We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.
— Philip Yancey
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
— Philip Yancey
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
— Philip Yancey