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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: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Jesus' response to suffering people and to nobodies provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
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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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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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Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.
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Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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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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In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square
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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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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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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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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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The proof of spiritual maturity is not how pure you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
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