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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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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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...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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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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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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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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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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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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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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