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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.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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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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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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