Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent evil (racism, ethnic hatred) spreads through society like an airborne disease, one cough infects a whole busload. When moments of grace do occur, the world must pause, fall silent, and acknowledge that indeed forgiveness offers a kind of cure. There will be no escape from wars, from hunger, from misery, from rancid discrimination, from denial of human rights, if our hearts aren't changed.
Some things just have to be believed to be seen. - Philip Yancey
Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
- Philip Yancey
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back. - Philip Yancey
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus… - Philip Yancey
When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus…
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of lov… - Philip Yancey
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of lov…
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and t… - Philip Yancey
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and t…
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks. - Philip Yancey
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and… - Philip Yancey
Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and…
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else. - Philip Yancey
I rejected the church for a time because I found so little grace there. I returned because I found grace nowhere else.
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. - Philip Yancey
Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.
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