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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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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 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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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 begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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