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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: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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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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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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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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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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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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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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Release what is good.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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