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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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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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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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