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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
Grace
Jesus
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Love
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Extravagant

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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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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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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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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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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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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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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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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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