Quotes from 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.

The quieter the mind," said Meister Eckhart, "the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is.

Forgiveness is not the same as pardon, he advises: you may forgive one who wronged you and still insist on a just punishment for that wrong.

for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?

The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.