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• If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps…
• Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…
• Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong....…
• Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
• Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
• Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
• Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
• Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
• In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…
• The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
• We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
• For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

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