What's So Amazing About Grace? Quotes

“Likewise, God wants me to serve “in the new way of the Spirit”: not out of compulsion but out of desire. “Discipleship,” says Dietrich Bonhoeffer,24 “simply means the life which springs from grace.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“Our real challenge should not be to Christianize the United States (always a losing battle) but rather to strive to be Christ’s church in an increasingly hostile world.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue. Eugene O’Neill”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“In another context, Nietzsche gave this warning, which applies to modern Christians: “Be careful, lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“I became a writer, I feel certain, in an attempt to reclaim words that had been tarnished by graceless Christians.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“Mark Twain used to say he put a dog and cat in a cage together as an experiment, to see if they could get along. They did, so he put in a bird, pig, and goat. They too got along fine after a few adjustments. Then he put in a Baptist, Presbyterian, and Catholic; soon there was not a living thing left.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?