Quotes about Reconciliation
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
- Philip Yancey
When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.
- Philip Yancey
for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness
- Philip Yancey
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
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
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
- Philip Yancey
He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
- Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
- Philip Yancey