"Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline.……" — Philip Yancey
"Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter."
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Philip Yancey
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157 Quotes by Philip Yancey
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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…
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
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O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
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