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Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least deserving in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

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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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If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.
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We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.
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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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When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off humbly admitting mistakes disarms.
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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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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Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.
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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I acknowledge where I stand before a perfect God, it restores the true state of the universe. Confession simply establishes the proper ground rules of creatures relating to their creator.
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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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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.
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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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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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