Quotes about Grace
Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.
— Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
— Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
— Philip Yancey
Justice has a good and righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural.
— Philip Yancey
forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.
— Philip Yancey
unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.
— Philip Yancey
When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.
— Philip Yancey
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.
— Philip Yancey
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
— Philip Yancey