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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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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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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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