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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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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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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 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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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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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 proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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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 would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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