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The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
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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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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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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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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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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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