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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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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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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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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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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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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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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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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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