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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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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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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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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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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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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