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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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 is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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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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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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