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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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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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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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