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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Believed
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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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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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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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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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