Quotes about Grace
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
God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.
— Philip Yancey
grace happens at unexpected moments. It stops us short, catches the breath, disarms. If we manipulate it, try to control it, somehow earn it, that would not be grace.
— Philip Yancey
Moralism apart from grace solves little.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
— Philip Yancey
It is difficult, if not impossible, to communicate the message of grace from the corridors of power.
— Philip Yancey
What would it take for church to become known as a place where grace is "on tap
— Philip Yancey
Grace has its own power, even in international politics.
— Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten
— Philip Yancey