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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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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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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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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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