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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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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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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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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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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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