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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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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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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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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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Release what is good.
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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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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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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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 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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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 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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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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