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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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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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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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