Quotes about Grace
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
— John Calvin
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
— Charles Spurgeon
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
— Max Lucado
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
— AW Tozer
women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
— Philip Yancey
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.
— Philip Yancey
We dare not invest so much in the kingdom of this world that we neglect our main task of introducing people to a different kind of kingdom, one based solely on God's grace and forgiveness. Passing laws to enforce morality serves a necessary function, to dam up evil, but it never solves human problems.
— Philip Yancey
Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
— Philip Yancey
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
— Philip Yancey
Many churches offer more entertainment than worship, more uniformity than diversity, more exclusivity than outreach, more law than grace.
— Philip Yancey