Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace? Quotes

Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

All of us in the church need “grace-healed eyes” to see the potential in others for the same grace that God has so lavishly bestowed on us.

The first nation to separate Christianity from government produced perhaps the most religious nation on earth.

Jesus proclaimed unmistakably that God's law is so perfect and absolute that no one can achieve righteousness. Yet God's grace is so great that we do not have to.

Only Christianity dares to make God's love unconditional.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

Are we concentrating more on the kingdom of this world than on the kingdom that is not of this world?

I know of only two alternatives to hypocrisy: perfection or honesty.

In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.