Quotes about Transformation
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
The gospel transforms culture by permeating it like yeast, and long after the people abandon belief they tend to live by habits of the soul. Once salted and yeasted, society is difficult to un-salt and un-yeast.
— 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
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
— Philip Yancey
Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.
— Philip Yancey
Grace is Christianity's best gift to the world, a spiritual nova in our midst exerting a force stronger than vengeance, stronger than racism, stronger than hate.
— Philip Yancey
He transforms pain, using it to teach and strengthen us, if we allow it to turn us toward him.
— Philip Yancey
Unlike the scary movies and sermons from my youth, not one of them focuses on personal salvation as a way of escaping hell in the afterlife. Rather, they present how the good news about eternity should transform this life. The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
— Philip Yancey
The message of this book has the power to reform the church, one relationship at a time.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus' prayer for Peter shows the same pattern in sharp relief. Satan partially got his way with Peter, sifting him like wheat. But in answer to Jesus' prayer, the sifting rid Peter of his least attractive qualities: blustery self-confidence, a chip on his shoulder, a propensity to violence.
— Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
— Philip Yancey