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

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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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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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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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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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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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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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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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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