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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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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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 have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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I never seeĀ 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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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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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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