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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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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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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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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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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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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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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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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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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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