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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Nation
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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I never see 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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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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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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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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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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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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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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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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