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God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
Author
Journalist
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Atlanta
Georgia
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Stories
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Bible
Poetry
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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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If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
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Homeless people bear God's image too.
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As I read the Bible, it seems clear that God satisfies his eternal appetite by loving individual human beings. I imagine He views each halting step forward in my spiritual walk with the eagerness of a parent watching a child take the very first step.
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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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Most observers understand the difference between a committed Christian who accepts Jesus as a model for living and a 'cultural Christian' who happens to live in a nation with a Christian heritage. Most Muslims do not.
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Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.
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I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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There is but one true Giver in the universe all else are debtors.
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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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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I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
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If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
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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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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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Some things just have to be believed to be seen.
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