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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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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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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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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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