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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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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 go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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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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... 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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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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