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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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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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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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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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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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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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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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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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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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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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