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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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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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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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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.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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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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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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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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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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