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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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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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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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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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Release what is good.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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The Quakers have a saying: An enemy is one whose story we have not heard. To communicate to post-Christians, I must first listen to their stories for clues to how they view the world and how they view people like me.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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