Quotes about Love
no one offers the name of a philosopher when I ask the question, "Who helped you most?" Most often they answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried.
— Philip Yancey
Augustine's Confessions...What it is, therefore, he begins, that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?
— Philip Yancey
The world starves for grace.
— Philip Yancey
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
— Philip Yancey
Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.
— Philip Yancey
sacrificial love is one of the most powerful weapons in the Christian's arsenal of grace.
— Philip Yancey
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
How can Christians dispense grace in a society that seems to be veering away from God?
— Philip Yancey
Don't the Bible say we must love everybody?" "O, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them." HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
— Philip Yancey
First, as should be clear by now, I believe that dispensing God's grace is the Christian's main contribution
— Philip Yancey
My anger about pain has melted mostly for one reason: I have come to know God. He has given me joy and love and happiness and goodness. They have come in unexpected flashes, in the midst of my confused, imperfect world, but they have been enough to convince me that my God is worthy of trust. Knowing him is worth all enduring.
— Philip Yancey
Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.
— Philip Yancey