Quotes about Compassion
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
by denying forgiveness to others, we are in effect determining them unworthy of God's forgiveness, and thus so are we.
— Philip Yancey
The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.
— Philip Yancey
How differently will I relate to the uncommitted if I view them not as evil or unsaved but rather as lost.
— Philip Yancey
As a counterbalance to the list of seven deadly sins, the church in the Middle Ages came up with a list of seven works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, house the homeless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, bury the dead.
— Philip Yancey
What would it look like if a Christian took literally Jesus' sweeping commands and acted on them. What would a Good Samaritan look like today, in urban America?
— Philip Yancey
no one offers the name of a philosopher when I ask the question, "Who helped you most?" Most often they answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried.
— Philip Yancey
The world starves for grace.
— Philip Yancey
I can never figure out how to have a friendly conversation with someone when my main point is that they are going to Hell.
— Philip Yancey