Quotes about Humanity
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
Suffering offers a general message of warning to all humanity that something is wrong with this planet, and that we need radical outside intervention
- Philip Yancey
Don't the Bible say we must love everybody?" "O, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them." HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
- Philip Yancey
Gordon MacDonald said, the world can do anything the church can do except one thing: it cannot show grace.
- Philip Yancey
6The LORD regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7So the LORD said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
- Philip Yancey
Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.
- Philip Yancey
As Dorothy Day put it, "I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
- Philip Yancey
The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.
- Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus was able to love men because he loved them right through the layer of mud.
- Philip Yancey