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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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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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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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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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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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I never seeĀ 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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... 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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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