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“ God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. ”

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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.

~ Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey Faith Living

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

~ Philip Yancey

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Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

~ Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey Change

Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

~ Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey Christianity Jesus Love Suffering