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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
Author
Journalist
Publisher
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Pool
Prayer
Love
Widens
Enters
Outward

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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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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 world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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I never seeĀ 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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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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