Quotes about Redemption
If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.
— Philip Yancey
God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.
— Philip Yancey
Moralism apart from grace solves little.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).
— Philip Yancey
The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
— Philip Yancey
Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take
— Philip Yancey
The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.
— Philip Yancey
when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.
— Philip Yancey
God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
— Philip Yancey
When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.
— Philip Yancey
for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness
— Philip Yancey