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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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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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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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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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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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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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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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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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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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I never see 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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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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