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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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[Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.
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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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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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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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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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