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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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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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On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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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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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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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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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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