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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
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Atlanta
Georgia
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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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If my activism, however well-motivated, drives out love, then I have misunderstood Jesus’ gospel. I am stuck with law, not the gospel of grace.
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A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
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I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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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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...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
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The Old Testament anticipates [Jesus] all the way through.
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Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else.
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Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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I never see 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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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.
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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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Grace is heartfelt, tinged with love, a spillover gift of the God who extended undeserved favor toward us.
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The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
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The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.
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People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.
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