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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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... the core problem with Christians communicating faith: we do not always do so in love. That is an indispensable point to presenting faith in a grace-full way.
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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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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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I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.
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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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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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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
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Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.
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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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Prayer is - keeping company with God.
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I never seeĀ God. I seldom run into visual clues that remind me of God unless I am looking. The act of looking, the pursuit itself, makes possible the encounter. For this reason, Christianity has always insisted that trust and obedience come first, and knowledge follows.
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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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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Our best efforts at changing society will fall short unless the church can teach the world how to love.
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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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