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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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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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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of 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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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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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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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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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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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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