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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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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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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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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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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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