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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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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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I never see 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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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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Release what is good.
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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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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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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