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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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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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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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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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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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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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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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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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