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Homeless people bear God's image too.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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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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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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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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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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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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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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