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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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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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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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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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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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