Quotes about Grace
For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.
— Philip Schaff
The Calvinistic system involves a positive truth: the election to eternal life by free grace, and the negative inference: the reprobation to eternal death by arbitrary justice. The former is the strength, the latter is the weakness of the system. The former is practically accepted by all true believers; the latter always has been, and always will be, repelled by the great majority of Christians.
— Philip Schaff
On the other hand, no man is saved mechanically or by force, but through faith, freely, by accepting the gift of God. This implies the contrary power of rejecting the gift. To accept is no merit, to reject is ingratitude and guilt. All Calvinistic preachers appeal to man's responsibility. They pray as if everything depended on God; and yet they preach and work as if everything depended on man.
— Philip Schaff
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
— Philip Yancey
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
— Philip Yancey
Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.
— Philip Yancey
If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus' gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
— Philip Yancey
I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
— Philip Yancey
Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.
— Philip Yancey