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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

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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People

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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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I never see 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 world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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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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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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