Quotes about Compassion
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
— Philip Yancey
We in the body of Christ are called to show love when God seems not to.
— Philip Yancey
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
— Philip Yancey
Because of Jesus, I can never say about a person, "She must be suffering because of some sin she committed"; Jesus, who did not sin, also felt pain.
— 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. The Jesus I Never Knew (244 — 45)
— Philip Yancey
Like grace, forgiveness has about it the maddening quality of being undeserved, unmerited, unfair.
— Philip Yancey
We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
— Philip Yancey
Why God asks us to forgive: because that is what God is like.
— Philip Yancey
God, help me to see others not as my enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
— Philip Yancey
An institution cannot love; only people can love. As the proverb says, apart from love, giving becomes an insult.
— Philip Yancey
For Jesus, the person was more important than any category or label.
— Philip Yancey