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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Prayer
Love
Widens
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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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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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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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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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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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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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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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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