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.
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it.
Prayer unites the soul to God.
God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.
Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and most utterly despised.