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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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 reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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