Quotes about Understanding
In sum, I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
— Philip Yancey
I've yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.
— Philip Yancey
As a Christian, my main concern is not to downgrade others' beliefs but to examine my own.
— Philip Yancey
I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.
— Philip Yancey
Who helped you most? Most often they (suffering people) answer by describing a quiet, unassuming person. Someone who was there whenever needed, who listened more than talked, who didn't keep glancing down at a watch, who hugged and touched, and cried. In short, someone who was available, and came on the sufferer's terms and not their own.
— Philip Yancey
It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.
— Philip Yancey
We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.
— Philip Yancey
Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3
— Philip Yancey
A grace-full Christian is one who looks at the world through "grace-tinted lenses.
— Philip Yancey
One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.
— Philip Yancey
The first step in helping a suffering person (or in accepting our own pain) is to acknowledge that pain is valid, and worthy of a sympathetic response.
— Philip Yancey
It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me.
— Philip Yancey