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 YanceySome of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.
Philip YanceyDoubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
Philip YanceyJesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.
Philip YanceyAnd perhaps, exhibiting the fruit of the Spirit may be our very best defense against a materialist view of mankind here on earth.
Philip Yancey