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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Wrath
Forgiveness
Punishment
Deserve
Love

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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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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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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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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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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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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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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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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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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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