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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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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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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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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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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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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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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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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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Release what is good.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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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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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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