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Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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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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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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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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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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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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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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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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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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