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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

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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Humility
Grace
Learning
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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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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
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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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Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
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Release what is good.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
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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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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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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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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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