Quotes about Forgiveness
Indeed, how could we experience grace at all except through our defects?
- Philip Yancey
The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.
- Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
- Philip Yancey
Jesus' prayers for Peter — and perhaps for Judas as well — express God's unfathomable respect for human freedom.
- 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
Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.
- Philip Yancey
Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.
- Philip Yancey
We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
- Philip Yancey
Why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.
- 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
There is one major flaw in the law of revenge, however: it never settles the score.
- Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
- Philip Yancey