Quotes about Empathy
Nothing else — no learned "how-to" program, no expensive gift — is worth more to the sufferer than the comfortable assurance of your physical presence.
— Philip Yancey
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
— Philip Yancey
We in the body of Christ are called to show love when God seems not to.
— Philip Yancey
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
— Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.
— Philip Yancey
Why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.
— Philip Yancey
God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
— Philip Yancey
Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.
— Philip Yancey
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
— Philip Yancey
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move
— Philip Yancey