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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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Atlanta
Georgia
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Prerequisite
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Humility
Grace

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When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.
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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 have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will make sense only in reverse.
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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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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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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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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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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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Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
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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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I would far rather convey grace than explain 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 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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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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