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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
Georgia
Humility
Grace
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True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.
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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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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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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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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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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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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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Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down it must grow internally, from the bottom up.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.
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In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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And perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
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Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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