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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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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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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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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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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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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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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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