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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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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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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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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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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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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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