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 YanceyThe rubber hits the road when we try to show grace to a person most unlike us, even someone morally offensive.
Philip YanceyI doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love.
Philip Yancey