Quotes about Compassion
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
Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.
— Philip Yancey
Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace.
— Philip Yancey
We do not pray to tell God what he does not know, nor to remind him of things he has forgotten. He already cares for the things we pray about... He has simply been waiting for us to care about them with him.
— Philip Yancey
Lord, if you can't make me thin, then make my friends look fat," humorist Erma Bombeck once prayed.
— Philip Yancey