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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
Author
Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Thirst
Falls
Silent
Grace
Fall
World
Thirsts
Descends

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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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