Quotes about Redemption
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
— 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
God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.
— Philip Yancey
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Philip Yancey
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
— Philip Yancey
The gospel is not at all what we would come up with on our own.
— 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