Quotes about Forgiveness
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
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.
- Philip Yancey
for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness
- Philip Yancey
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.
- Philip Yancey
grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.
- Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
- Philip Yancey
forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.
- Philip Yancey
When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.
- Philip Yancey