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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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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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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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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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