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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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