Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe t…

Philip Yancey
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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. ✨ Philip Yancey (1995). The Jesus I Never Knew, p.298, Harper Collins
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