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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!

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
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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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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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The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.
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The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
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As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.
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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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Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
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When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.
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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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No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.
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The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.
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Indeed we are all in peril if the flawed messenger invalidates the message.
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We should feel dissonance we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured open between our mortal and immortal parts theologians trace the fault line back to the Fall.
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I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
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The world thirsts for grace. When grace descends, the world falls silent before it.
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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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... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.
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It's easy to fall into the trap of feeling like you've heard everything before and that you have nothing left to learn.
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