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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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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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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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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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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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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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