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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eternity
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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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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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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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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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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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