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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
Love
Widens
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Outward
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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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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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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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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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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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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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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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