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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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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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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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The world is not against you, but the world is a place where bad things happen. It's just true. Airlines crash, people do evil things. A lot of bad things happen and it causes pain.
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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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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 world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
Philip Yancey
Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
Philip Yancey
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
Philip Yancey
The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
Philip Yancey
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.
Philip Yancey
We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
Philip Yancey
Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
Philip Yancey
I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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