Inspirational Quotes by Philip Yancey
“This is a very important book about the most important subject in human history.”
“why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.”
“We may be abominations, but we are still God’s pride and joy. All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.”
“Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.”
“In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.”
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“Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.”
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“For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.”
“There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.”
“I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.”
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“defects. I escape the force of gravity again when”
“the descendants of today’s raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.”
“it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.”
“Vengeance is a passion to get even. It is a hot desire to give back as much pain as someone gave you. . . . The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes.”
“Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.”
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“Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.”
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“Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move,”
“Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.”
“about the key to something many Christ-followers often talk and pray about: genuine revival.”
“Calvary broke up the logjam between justice and forgiveness. By accepting onto his innocent self all the severe demands of justice, Jesus broke forever the chain of ungrace.”
“The law did not encourage obedience, rather it magnified disobedience. Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.”
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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.