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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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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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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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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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