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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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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 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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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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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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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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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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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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