Philip Yancey Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

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  Christian, Sin, Angry

• Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

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  Jesus, Pride, Hypocrisy

• Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

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  Jesus, Birth Defects, Grace

  Philip Yancey (2009). “The Jesus I Never Knew Participant's Guide: Six Sessions on the Life of Christ”, p.23, Zondervan

• By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

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  People, Missing, Behavior

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.210, Harper Collins

• Charles Williams has said of the Lord's Prayer, "No word in English carries a greater possibility of terror than the little word 'as' in that clause." What makes the 'as' so terrifying? The fact that Jesus plainly links our forgiven-ness by the Father with our forgiving-ness of fellow human beings. Jesus' next remark could not be more explicit: 'If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.'

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  Jesus, Prayer, Father

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.87, Harper Collins

• Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

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  Opposites, Grace, Holiness

• On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

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  Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

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