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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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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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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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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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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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I never see God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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