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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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