Yancey on Prayer and the Mystery of Life

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Yancey on Prayer and the Mystery of Life

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived. Prayer offers no ironclad guarantees—just the certain promise that we need not live that mystery alone.

—Philip Yancey, author of Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

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