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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Stillness
Prayer
Soul
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
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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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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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...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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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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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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