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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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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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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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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 giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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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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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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