Quotes about Vulnerability
My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
— Charles Dickens
Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.
— Philip Yancey
Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.
— Philip Yancey
Homeless people bear God's image too.
— 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
To pray is to walk in the full light of God, and to say simply, without holding back, 'I am human and you are God.
— 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
Throughout the Bible, in fact, God shows a marked preference for "real" people over "good" people.
— Philip Yancey
So I'm trying, instead of shaming or pretending, to come to terms with my emotions, and bring them before God honestly. I have come to realize that I'm never going to stop having emotions, and probably strong emotions, because that is the way I'm wired.
— Philip Yancey
Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.
— Philip Yancey
Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.
— Philip Yancey
The healthiest body is the one that feels the pain of its weakest parts.
— Philip Yancey