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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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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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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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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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