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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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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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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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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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Release what is good.
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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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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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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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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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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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