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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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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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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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