Quotes about Compassion
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
God is present in the hungry, the homeless, the sick, and the imprisoned, as Jesus claimed in Matthew 25, and we serve God when we serve them.
— Philip Yancey
it seems so unfair, to forgive injustice. I am caught between forgiveness and justice.
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness may be unfair—it is, by definition—but at least it provides a way to halt the juggernaut of retribution.
— Philip Yancey
Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.
— Philip Yancey