Quotes about Grace
The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
— Philip Yancey
First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution
— Philip Yancey
Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.
— Philip Yancey
In sum, I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
— Philip Yancey
Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel
— Philip Yancey
For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath.
— Philip Yancey
When I betray the love and grace God has shown me, I fall back on the promise that Jesus prays for me... not that I would never face testing, nor ever fail, but that in the end I will allow God to use the testing and failure to mold me into someone more useful to the kingdom, someone more like Jesus.
— Philip Yancey
What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.
— Philip Yancey
Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.
— Philip Yancey
God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.
— Philip Yancey
God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.
— Philip Yancey
When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love — ?and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.
— Philip Yancey