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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

Philip Yancey

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Philip Yancey
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 4
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Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.
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