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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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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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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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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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