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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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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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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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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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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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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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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 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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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