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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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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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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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Release what is good.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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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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