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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
Philip Yancey
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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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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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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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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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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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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