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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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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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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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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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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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