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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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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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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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