Quotes related to Luke 6:37
Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.
- Philip Yancey
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
- Philip Yancey
Instead, in a stunning reversal, Jesus instructed us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." At the center of the Lord's Prayer, which Jesus taught us to recite, lurks the unnatural act of forgiveness.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
- Philip Yancey
He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
- Philip Yancey
Jesus requires—no, demands—a response of forgiveness.
- Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
- Philip Yancey
Does the Christian emphasis on love, grace, and forgiveness have any relevance outside quarreling families or church encounter groups? In a world where force matters most, a lofty ideal like forgiveness may seem as insubstantial as vapor.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
- Philip Yancey