Philip Yancey - What's So Amazing About Grace? (1997)

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Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Philip Yancey

You can know the law by heart without knowing the heart of it

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What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

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Politics draws lines between people; in contrast, Jesus' love cuts across those lines and dispenses grace. That does not mean, of course, that Christians should not involve themselves in politics. It simply means that as we do so we must not let the rules of power displace the command to love.

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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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At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

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