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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

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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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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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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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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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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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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