... the issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree. We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
- Philip Yancey
More Quotes By Philip Yancey
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus’ love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does... Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it and I am one of those... Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way... One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as “those evil... Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from... Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace... Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that... The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very... C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused... We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or... Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon...
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