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What Is Prayer? It’s a deceptively simple question. Consider pondering each of the following perspectives thoughtfully and, of course, prayerfully. 

“Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.”
~Walter Brueggemann

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
~Karl Barth

“Real prayer comes not from gritting teeth but from falling in love.”
~Richard Foster

“Is prayer your steering wheel, or your spare tire?”
~Corrie ten Boom

“Prayer changes the world because it first changes us.”
~Laurence Freeman

“Prayer is not an escape from the world but an entrance into it.”
~Ann and Barry Ulanov

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