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Philip Yancey Inspirational Quotes (140)

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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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