Prayer unites the soul to God.

Between God and the soul there is no between.

For our soul is so preciously loved of him that is highest, that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

In God's sight we do not fall: in our own we do not stand.

Prayer is a new, gracious, lasting will of the soul united and fast-bound to the will of God by the precious and mysterious working of the Holy Ghost.