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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.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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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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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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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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Grace is a free gift of God, but to receive a gift you must have open hands.
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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
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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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Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.
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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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There is an offense to the Gospel no matter how graciously we present it. It includes the message that God, not humanity, is the ultimate judge of right and wrong, and that the choices we make here have eternal consequences.
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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.
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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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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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Jesus announced a great reversal of values in His Sermon on the Mount, elevating not the rich or attractive, but rather the poor, the persecuted, and those who mourn.
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