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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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Atlanta
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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Release what is good.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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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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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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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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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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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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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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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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