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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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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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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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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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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
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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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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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