Quotes about Redemption
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
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