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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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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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One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as those evil people or those poor people who need our help. Nor must we search for signs of loveworthiness. Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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God operates by different rules of time and space. And God's infinite greatness, which we would expect to diminish us, actually makes possible the very closeness that we desire. A God unbound by our rules of time has the ability to invest in every person on earth. God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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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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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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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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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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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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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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Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
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