Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.”
“Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.”
“forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.”
“In his list of fruits of the Spirit, Paul includes one that we translate with the archaic word “long-suffering.” We would do well to revive that word, and concept, in its most literal form to apply to the problem of long-term pain.”
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“Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep,” advised the apostle Paul (Romans 12:15), wise words that apply especially in times of crisis.”
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“Wounded people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them.”
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“the parents of a severely disabled child have no end in sight.”
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“Justice has a good and righteous and rational kind of power. The power of grace is different: unworldly, transforming, supernatural.”
“Then the question becomes, “How do we treat sinners?”
“Barbara Brown Taylor, an Episcopal priest, decided to leave her clergy position in part because of the church’s failure to administer that grace: One thing that had always troubled me was the way people disappeared from church when their lives were breaking down. Separation and divorce were the most common explanations for long absences, but so were depression, alcoholism, job loss, and mortal illness. One new widow told me that she could not come to church because she started crying the moment she sat down in a pew. A young man freshly diagnosed with AIDS said that he stayed away because he was too frightened to answer questions and too angry to sing hymns. I understood their reasoning, but I was sorry that church did not strike these wounded souls as a place they could bring the dark fruits of their equally dark nights.”
“grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.”
“Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you’ve forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.”
“God does some of God’s best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.”
“That this world spoiled by evil and suffering still exists at all is an example of God’s mercy, not his cruelty.”
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“Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.”
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“by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another’s search for meaning.”
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“for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness”
“As Christ’s body on earth we are compelled to move, as he did, toward those who hurt. That has been God’s consistent movement in all history.”
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“Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.”
“When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.”
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Philip Yancey is an American Christian author. Fourteen million of his books have been sold worldwide, making him one of the best-selling evangelical Christian authors. Two of his books have won the ECPA's Christian Book of the Year Award: The Jesus I Never Knew in 1996, What's So Amazing About Grace in 1998. He is published by Zondervan Publishing.
Yancey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. When Yancey was one year old, his father, stricken with polio, died after his church elders suggested he go off life support in faith that God would heal him. This was one of the reasons he had lost his faith at one point of time. Yancey earned his MA with highest honors from the graduate school of Wheaton College. His two graduate degrees in Communications and English were earned from Wheaton College Graduate School and the University of Chicago.
Yancey moved to Chicago, Illinois, and in 1971 joined the staff of Campus Life magazine--a sister publication of Christianity Today directed towards high school and college students--where he served as editor for eight years. Yancey was for many years an editor for Christianity Today and wrote articles for Reader's Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Eternity, Moody Monthly, and National Wildlife, among others. He now lives in Colorado, working as a columnist and editor-at-large for Christianity Today. He is a member of the editorial board of Books and Culture, another magazine affiliated with Christianity Today, and travels around the world for speaking engagements.