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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Mercy
Compassion
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Love

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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 deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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