Quotes about Redemption
Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is an act of faith.
- Philip Yancey
Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.
- Philip Yancey
Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.
- Philip Yancey
if I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved.
- Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
- Philip Yancey
God's grace is not a grandfatherly display of "niceness," for it cost the exorbitant price of Calvary.
- Philip Yancey
God shattered the inexorable law of sin and retribution by invading earth, absorbing the worst we had to offer, crucifixion, and then fashioning from that cruel deed the remedy for the human condition. Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.
- Philip Yancey
a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness.
- Philip Yancey
When God looks upon my life graph, he sees not jagged swerves toward good and bad but rather a steady line of good: the goodness of God's Son captured in a moment of time and applied for all eternity.
- Philip Yancey
You cannot earn God's acceptance by climbing; you must receive it as a gift.
- Philip Yancey
God does some of God's best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.
- Philip Yancey