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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Grace
Pain
Problem
Meets
Scandal
Match

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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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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.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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