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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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We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.
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The shift in American society from admiring Christians to fearing and criticizing them provides an opportunity for self-reflection. How have we been presenting the message we believe in? Might there be a more grace-filled way?
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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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Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.
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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.
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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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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.
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One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.
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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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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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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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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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You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it
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The rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
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Grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us. Ask people what they must do to get to heaven and most reply, Be good. Jesus' stories contradict that answer. All we must do is cry, Help!
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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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God has, quite literally, all the time in the world for each one of us.
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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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