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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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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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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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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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