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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Law
Without
Heart

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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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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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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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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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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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... 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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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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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Release what is good.
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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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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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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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