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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.

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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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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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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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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