When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves - blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

So when we sing, 'Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed Lord,' we are not thinking of the nearness of place, but of the nearness of relationship. It is for increasing degrees of awareness that we pray, for a more perfect consciousness of the divine Presence. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.