Quotes about Redemption
grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family.
— Philip Yancey
The only hope for any of us, regardless of our particular sins, lies in a ruthless trust in a God who inexplicably loves sinners, including those who sin differently than we do.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.
— Philip Yancey
All of us in the church need "grace-healed eyes" to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.
— Philip Yancey
Could it be that Christians, eager to point out how good we are, neglect the basic fact that the gospel sounds like good news only to bad people?
— Philip Yancey
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
— Philip Yancey
According to Jesus, what I think about him and how I respond will determine my destiny for all eternity.
— Philip Yancey
I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
— Philip Yancey
Grace is for the desperate, the needy, the broken, those who cannot make it on their own. Grace is for all of
— Philip Yancey
Jesus' death, he said, broke down the temple barriers, dismantling the dividing walls of hostility that had separated categories of people. Grace found a way.
— Philip Yancey
Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
— Philip Yancey
Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.
— Philip Yancey