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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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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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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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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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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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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.
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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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