Quotes about Grace
we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." And "he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
— Philip Yancey
When the church joined with the state, it tended to wield power rather than dispense grace.
— Philip Yancey
The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.
— Philip Yancey
The world starves for grace.
— Philip Yancey
Others of us, rightly concerned about issues in a modern "culture war," neglect the church's mission as a haven of grace in this world of ungrace.
— Philip Yancey
Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.
— Philip Yancey
sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.
— Philip Yancey
two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God's unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other people. . . . We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that's not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.
— Philip Yancey
How will we feel if historians of the future look back on the evangelical church of the 1990s and declare, "They fought bravely on the moral fronts of abortion and homosexual rights," while at the same time reporting that we did little to fulfill the Great Commission, and we did little to spread the aroma of grace in the world?
— Philip Yancey
Anderson draws from the experience of Judas a key principle about prayer: "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
As a writer I have received my share of mixed reviews. Even so, as I read through stacks of vituperative letters, I got a strong sense for why the world does not automatically associate the word "grace" with evangelical Christians. Noxious
— Philip Yancey
How can Christians dispense grace in a society that seems to be veering away from God?
— Philip Yancey