Quotes about Mercy
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
— Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.
— Philip Yancey
The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.
— Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
— Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.
— Philip Yancey
Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.
— Philip Yancey
Why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.
— Philip Yancey
There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.
— Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
— Philip Yancey
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.
— Philip Yancey