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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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 Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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All too often the church holds up a mirror reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a different way.
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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 deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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