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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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Gospels
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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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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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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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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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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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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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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