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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Loopholes
Extravagant
Grace
Jesus
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Love

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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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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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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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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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