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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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Humility
Grace
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We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.
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As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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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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God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
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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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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?
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Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
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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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We're concerned with how things turn out God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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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 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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The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'
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