Quotes about Redemption
Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take
— Philip Yancey
The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.
— Philip Yancey
when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.
— Philip Yancey
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
— Philip Yancey
When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.
— Philip Yancey
for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.
— Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
— Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
— 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