Quotes about Kindness
simple availability is the most powerful force we can contribute to help calm the fears of others. Instinctively, I shrink back from people who are in pain.
- Philip Yancey
Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3
- Philip Yancey
God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.
- Philip Yancey
There is a simple cure for people who doubt God's love and question God's grace: to turn to the Bible and examine the kind of people God loves.
- Philip Yancey
Grace is not about finishing last or first; it is about not counting.
- Philip Yancey
Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.
- 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
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
- 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
The issue is not whether I agree with someone but rather how I treat someone with whom I profoundly disagree.
- Philip Yancey
What greater gift could Christians give to the world than the forming of a culture that upholds grace and forgiveness?
- Philip Yancey
We Christians are called to use the "weapons of grace," which means treating even our opponents with love and respect.
- Philip Yancey