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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
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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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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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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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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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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
Philip Yancey