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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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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.Philip Yancey
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We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.Philip Yancey
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Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.Philip Yancey
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…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes — well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?) .Philip Yancey