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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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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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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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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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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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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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