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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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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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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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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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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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