Quotes about Empathy
The phrase "the body of Christ," expresses well what we are called to do: to represent in flesh what Christ is like, especially to those in need. The
— Philip Yancey
When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.
— Philip Yancey
One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.
— Philip Yancey
Then the question becomes, "How do we treat sinners?
— Philip Yancey
The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.
— Philip Yancey
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
— Philip Yancey
The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he would free him and bring him back to his real self.
— Philip Yancey
It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
— Philip Yancey
He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
— Philip Yancey