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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Everything
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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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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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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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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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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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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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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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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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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