Quotes about Humanity
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
We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.
— Philip Yancey
Not even God, with all his power, can force a human being to love.
— Philip Yancey
The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.
— Philip Yancey
Caught up in righteous—and wholly appropriate—revulsion over Serbian atrocities, the world overlooks one fact: the Serbs are simply following the terrible logic of unforgiveness.
— 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
Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.
— Philip Yancey
In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.
— Philip Yancey