Grace Quotes by Philip Yancey

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

— Philip Yancey

“A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through “grace-tinted lenses.”

— Philip Yancey

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

— Philip Yancey

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.

— Philip Yancey

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

— Philip Yancey

The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

— Philip Yancey

I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

— Philip Yancey

Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.

— Philip Yancey

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of…

— Philip Yancey

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

— Philip Yancey

Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of…

— Philip Yancey

The church is, above all, a place to receive grace: it brings forgiven people together with the aim of equipping us to…

— Philip Yancey

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

— Philip Yancey

... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to…

— Philip Yancey

“grace is the only force in the universe powerful enough to break the chains that enslave generations.”

— Philip Yancey

The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.

— Philip Yancey

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God;…

— Philip Yancey

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing…

— Philip Yancey

One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor…

— Philip Yancey

C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which…

— Philip Yancey

The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been…

— Philip Yancey

... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We…

— Philip Yancey

Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those people... Now I am…

— Philip Yancey

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community.…

— Philip Yancey

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise.…

— Philip Yancey

“God. Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more —no amount of spiritual calisthenics and renunciations,…

— Philip Yancey

Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can…

— Philip Yancey

We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for…

— Philip Yancey

In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…

— Philip Yancey

The Christian knows to serve the weak not because they deserve it but because God extended his love to us when we…

— Philip Yancey

“God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called…

— Philip Yancey

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and…

— Philip Yancey

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

— Philip Yancey

We respond to healing grace by giving it away.

— Philip Yancey

Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.

— Philip Yancey

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

— Philip Yancey

I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.

— Philip Yancey

“What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?”

— Philip Yancey

Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

— Philip Yancey

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

— Philip Yancey