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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

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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Grace
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Borne

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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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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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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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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 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 shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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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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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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