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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Stillness
Prayer
Soul
Unfolds

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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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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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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
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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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We deserve punishment and get forgiveness we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.
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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and 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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