Quotes about Compassion
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
— Philip Yancey
recall Gandhi's remark that if you take the principle "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" to its logical conclusion, eventually the whole world will go blind and toothless.
— Philip Yancey
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me. Those conversations are what led to the title of this book. Although God's grace is as amazing as ever, in my divided country it seems in vanishing supply.
— Philip Yancey
The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
— Philip Yancey
Jesus gave a vivid object lesson his last night with the disciples by washing their feet, like a servant. Parents know the self-giving principle by instinct as they pour their energies into their self-absorbed children. Volunteers in soup kitchens and hospices and mission projects learn this lesson by doing.* What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.
— Philip Yancey
Christians should not compromise in hating sin, says Lewis. Rather we should hate the sins in others in the same way we hate them in ourselves: being sorry the person has done such things and hoping that somehow, sometime, somewhere, that person will be cured.
— Philip Yancey
From Jesus I learn that God is on the side of the sufferer.
— Philip Yancey
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure
— Philip Yancey
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