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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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