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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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