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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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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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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.
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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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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