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  1. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    grace means there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, and nothing I can do to make God love me less. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family.
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  2. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves."
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  3. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    Jesus declared that we should have one distinguishing mark: not political correctness or moral superiority, but love.
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  4. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
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  5. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.
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  6. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.
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  7. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
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  8. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
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  9. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    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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  10. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    {...}women much like this prostitute fled toward Jesus, not away from him. The worse a person felt about herself, the more likely she saw Jesus as a refuge. Has the church lost that gift?
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  11. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.
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  12. Philip Yancey _ What's So Amazing About Grace?

    I would far rather convey grace than explain it.
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