Quotes about Acceptance
It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.
- Philip Yancey
Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.
- Philip Yancey
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
- Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
- Philip Yancey
unless we learn dependence we will never experience grace.
- Philip Yancey
The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
- Philip Yancey
It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
- Philip Yancey
We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.
- Philip Yancey
If God's kingdom had a "No Oddballs Allowed" sign posted, none of us could get in.
- Philip Yancey
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
- Philip Yancey
For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.
- Philip Yancey