Quotes about Compassion
Make it so the poor are no longer despised and thrown away. Look at them standing about — like wildflowers, which have nowhere else to grow.
— Philip Yancey
From Jesus I learn that, whatever activism I get involved in, it must not drive out love and humility, or otherwise I betray the kingdom of heaven.
— Philip Yancey
Homeless people bear God's image too.
— Philip Yancey
The only hope for the future lay in an all-embracing attitude of forgiveness of the peoples who had been our enemies.
— Philip Yancey
The church has allowed itself to get so swept up in political issues that it plays by the rules of power, which are rules of ungrace
— Philip Yancey
My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.
— Philip Yancey
We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
— Philip Yancey
Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a person's heart, something for which politics has no cure.
— Philip Yancey
Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are. Where misery is, there is the Messiah, and now on earth the Messiah takes form in the shape of the church. That's what the body of Christ means.
— Philip Yancey
instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offences willingly, comfort the afflicted, pray for the living and the dead.
— Philip Yancey
Contrary to nature's rule of "survival of the fittest," we humans measure civilization by how we respond to the most vulnerable and the suffering.
— Philip Yancey