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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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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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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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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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