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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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Release what is good.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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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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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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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 Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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