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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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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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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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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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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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