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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
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The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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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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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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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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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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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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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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