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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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Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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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 enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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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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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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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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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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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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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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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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