Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
John StottDon't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvellous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.
John Stott