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“Prayer is subversive activity. It involves a more or less open act of defiance against any claim by the current regime.... [As we pray,] slowly but surely, not culture, not family, not government, not job, not even the tyrannous self can stand against the quiet power and creative influence of God's sovereignty.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction