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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: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.
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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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The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.
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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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The people who related to God best--Abraham, Moses, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah--treated him with startling familiarity. They talked to God as if he were sitting in a chair beside them, as one might talk to a counselor, a boss, a parent, or a lover. They treated him like a person.
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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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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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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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