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What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts QUOTES

What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts QUOTES

1 " God. Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more —no amount of spiritual calisthenics and renunciations, no amount of knowledge gained from seminaries and divinity schools, no amount of crusading on behalf of righteous causes. And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less —no amount of racism or pride or pornography or adultery or even murder. Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

2 " Today, if I had to answer the question “Where is God when it hurts?” in a single sentence, I would make that sentence another question: “Where is the church when it hurts?” We form the front line of God’s response to the suffering world. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

3 " God dispenses gifts, not wages. None of us gets paid according to merit, for none of us comes close to satisfying God’s requirements for a perfect life. If paid on the basis of fairness, we would all end up in hell. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

4 " Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers on earth? "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

5 " Spiritual experience is nourished best in the wilderness. When I am old, I hope I do not spend my days between sterile sheets, hooked up to a respirator in a germ-free environment, protected from the hazards of the world outside. I hope I’m on a tennis court, straining my heart with a septuagenarian overhead smash. Or perhaps on a final hike, huffing and puffing along a trail to Lower Yosemite Falls for one more feel of the spray against my wrinkled cheek. In short, I hope I do not so insulate myself from pain that I no longer feel pleasure. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

6 " Author Stephen Brown notes that a veterinarian can learn a lot about a dog owner he has never met just by observing the dog. What does the world learn about God by watching us his followers "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

7 " A counselor, David Seamands, summed up his career this way: Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion that the two major causes of most emotional problems among evangelical Christians are these: the failure to understand, receive, and live out God’s unconditional grace and forgiveness; and the failure to give out that unconditional love, forgiveness, and grace to other people.… We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

8 " God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. JÜRGEN MOLTMANN "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

9 " Paul harped on grace because he knew what could happen if we believe we have earned God’s love. In the dark times, if perhaps we badly fail God, or if for no good reason we simply feel unloved, we would stand on shaky ground. We would fear that God might stop loving us when he discovers the real truth about us. Paul—“the chief of sinners” he once called himself—knew beyond doubt that God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

10 " Obviously, Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

11 " … as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a fear, of which I may not be afraid. "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts

12 " Jesus’ story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day’s wages. Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting. We receive grace as a gift from God, not as something we toil to earn, a point that Jesus made clearly through the employer’s response: Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous? "

― Philip Yancey , What's So Amazing About Grace/Where is God When It Hurts