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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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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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I never see 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 approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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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.
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