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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

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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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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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I would far rather convey grace than explain 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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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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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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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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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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