Quotes about Forgiveness
Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.
— Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
— Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
— Philip Yancey
forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.
— Philip Yancey
When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.
— Philip Yancey
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
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— 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