If Grace Is True Quotes

“I ran across the following thought that I JUST LOVE & I thought of you......
"I do not know where we will sit at the final banquet, but I suspect who will sit beside us - on our right will sit the person whom we have harmed the most. On our left will sit the person who has done the greatest evil to us. We will be seated between grace received and grace required".”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“We are not to worship the Bible; we are to worship the One the Bible reveals.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“I believe God loves everyone.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“When I lifted up the Bible as my ultimate authority, I made my leather-bound, gold-engraved Bible into a paper calf.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“why did Jesus have to die?” The simple answer is, he didn’t. His death was not God’s will. God didn’t send Jesus into the world to atone for sin. He was born to live, learn, and know God. He experienced a profound intimacy with God. Around the age of thirty, Jesus felt led to challenge the inaccurate images of God prevalent in his day, to introduce people to his Father, and to encourage them to live as people of grace. Jesus hoped the people of Israel would respond to his message and become “a light unto the Gentiles.” What Jesus sought was not the establishment of a new religion, but the establishment of the kingdom of God—a kingdom of goodness and grace. Unfortunately, as Jesus discovered, only a few glimpsed this kingdom. Most, rather than sharing his vision, thought him demon possessed. His insistence on the grace of God when many were eagerly awaiting God’s wrath only increased their suspicion. Rather than raising an army to challenge Rome, he cleared the temple and claimed its courts as “a house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7). Instead of destroying the Gentiles, he invited them into the Holy of Holies. Grace got Jesus killed. Jesus died because the clash between unwavering love and unyielding pride and intolerance always result in a cross or an assassination or torture or imprisonment or persecution. The cross is simply one more sign of humanity’s consistent resistance to grace. We silence any messenger who challenges our quest for a favored position.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“why did Jesus have to die?” The simple answer is, he didn’t. His death was not God’s will. God didn’t send Jesus into the world to atone for sin. He was born to live, learn, and know God. He experienced a profound intimacy with God. Around the age of thirty, Jesus felt led to challenge the inaccurate images of God prevalent in his day, to introduce people to his Father, and to encourage them to live as people of grace. Jesus hoped the people of Israel would respond to his message and become “a light unto the Gentiles.” What Jesus sought was not the establishment of a new religion, but the establishment of the kingdom of God—a kingdom of goodness and grace.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“I believe God will save every person.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“Susan admitted the churches she had grown up in were heavy on hell and damnation and light on grace. They claimed to be “saved by grace” but then carefully outlined a very specific set of beliefs one had to accept in order to be a Christian. They had emphasized law over love. Nearly every sermon she heard growing up had warned of God’s wrath. She’d been taught to fear God rather than be awed by his grace.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person

“The testimony of the Bible is clear. The God of Jesus, of Peter and of Paul, and of Abraham and Jacob is a living God. He calls himself “I AM,” not “I WAS.” Scripture isn’t a brittle and crumbling letter from a God long silent. The Bible proclaims a God of visions, fresh words, and new revelations. To believe the Bible is to believe in such a God.”
― Philip Gulley, If Grace Is True: Why God Will Save Every Person