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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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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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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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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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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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Release what is good.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
Philip Yancey
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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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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
Philip Yancey