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Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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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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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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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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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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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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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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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're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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Release what is good.
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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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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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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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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.
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