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

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Atlanta
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
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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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We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?
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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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I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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... 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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In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
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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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The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.
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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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I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.
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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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... we need to reclaim the goodnewness of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.
Philip Yancey