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• I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

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  Faith, Loyalty, Religious

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail.

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  Humility, Church, World

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?”, p.20, Zondervan

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• People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.

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  Differences, People, Done

  Philip Yancey (2010). “What Good is God?: On the Road with Stories of Grace”, p.287, Hachette UK

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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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  Jesus, Mean, World

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• Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples - an ornery, undependable, and hopelessly flawed group of men - became drunk with the power of a gospel that offered free forgiveness to the worst sinners and traitors. Those men managed to change the world.

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  Jesus, Men, Impact

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.95, Harper Collins

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• I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.

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  Country, Taken, Ethos

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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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  Church, Trying, Claims

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.56, Image

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• Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

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  Heaven, Kingdoms, Desperation

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.117, Harper Collins

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• Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

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  Prayer, Believe, Listening

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• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

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  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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• All too often the church holds up a mirror
  reflecting back the society around it, rather than a window revealing a
  different way.

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  Mirrors, Reflecting Back, Church

  Philip Yancey (2003). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.83, HarperCollins Christian Publishing

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• Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

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  Prayer, Humans

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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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  Jesus, Philosophy, Promise

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Grace Notes”, p.230, Harper Collins

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• All of the images of Jesus and of the kingdom are small things: be a light in the darkness.

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  Jesus, Light, Darkness

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• What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

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  Gratitude, Book, World

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• Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

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  Christian, Mean, Perfect

  Philip Yancey (2002). “Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church”, p.12, Image

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• We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

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  Jesus, Mind, Ordinary

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• Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

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  Christian, Desire, Way

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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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  Christian, Return, Would Be

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• [Jesus] invoked a different kind of power: love, not coercion.

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  Jesus, Different, Coercion

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.77, Harper Collins

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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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  Christian, Believe, Reflection

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• The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure.

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  Pain, Caring, Endure

  Philip Yancey (2013). “The Question that Never Goes Away: What is God up to in a world of such tragedy and pain?”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• When he lived on earth, [Jesus] surrounded himself with ordinary people who misunderstood him, failed to exercise much spiritual power, and sometimes behaved like churlish schoolchildren.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

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• The uncommitted share many of our core values, but if we do not live out those values in a compelling way, we will not awaken a thirst for their ultimate Source.

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  Way, Share, Source

  Philip Yancey (2014). “Vanishing Grace Study Guide: Whatever Happened to the Good News?”, p.24, Zondervan

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• Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

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  Jesus, Expression, People

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