Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way

of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to

make use of us.  It may be that one of our great faults in

prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little.  When

prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to

us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to

flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting

arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
 
 
 The Plain Man's Book of Prayers, Introduction [1959]