Quotes about Compassion
The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.
— Philip Yancey
When I ask, "Tell me the first word that comes to your mind when I say Christian," not one time has someone suggested the word love. Yet without question that is the proper biblical answer.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.
— Philip Yancey
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
— Philip Yancey
what about grace? How rare to find a church competing to "out-grace" its rivals.
— 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
God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.
— 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