Quotes about Understanding
A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Obviously, Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
— Philip Yancey