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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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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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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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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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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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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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