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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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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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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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