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

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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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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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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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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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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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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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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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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