Quotes about Redemption
A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
- Philip Yancey
by denying forgiveness to others, we are in effect determining them unworthy of God's forgiveness, and thus so are we.
- Philip Yancey
How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.
- Philip Yancey
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Philip Yancey
The deepest longings we feel on earth, as parents, as lovers, are mere flickers of the hungering desire God feels for us. It is a desire that cost him the Incarnation and the Crucifixion.
- Philip Yancey
Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering
- Philip Yancey
Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention
- Philip Yancey
Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.
- Philip Yancey
6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
- Philip Yancey
Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel
- Philip Yancey
If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.
- Philip Yancey
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back.
- Philip Yancey