Quotes about Redemption
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
Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.
- Philip Yancey
Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.
- Philip Yancey
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.
- Philip Yancey
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.
- Philip Yancey