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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
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Mercy
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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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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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Release what is good.
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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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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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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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