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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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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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I never seeĀ 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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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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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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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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Release what is good.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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