Quotes about Grace
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
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.
— Philip Yancey
if I care to listen, I hear a loud whisper from the gospel that I did not get what I deserved. I deserved punishment and got forgiveness. I deserved wrath and got love. I deserved debtor's prison and got instead a clean credit history. I deserved stern lectures and crawl-on-your-knees repentance; I got a banquet—Babette's feast—spread for me.
— Philip Yancey
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
— Philip Yancey
A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
— Philip Yancey
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace.
— Philip Yancey
Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.
— Philip Yancey
by denying forgiveness to others, we are in effect determining them unworthy of God's forgiveness, and thus so are we.
— Philip Yancey
God is the ultimate judge of hypocrisy in the church, I decided; I would leave such judgment in God's capable hands. I began to relax and grow softer, more forgiving of others. After all, who has a perfect spouse, or perfect parents or children? We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections—why give up on the church?
— Philip Yancey
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
— Philip Yancey
We may be abominations, but we are still God's pride and joy. All of us in the church need "grace-healed eyes" to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.
— Philip Yancey
In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
— Philip Yancey