Quotes about Grace
Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.
— Philip Yancey
Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.
— Philip Yancey
God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God's requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell.
— Philip Yancey
The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace
— Philip Yancey
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. Those
— Philip Yancey
My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.
— Philip Yancey
Who is my enemy? The abortionist? The Hollywood producer polluting our culture? The politician threatening my moral principles? The drug lord ruling my inner city? If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
— Philip Yancey
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.
— Philip Yancey
God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love, said Augustine.
— Philip Yancey