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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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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 can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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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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