All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

All worship is shot wrong that is not directed to, and conducted by, the thoughts of the power of God, whose assistance we need.

God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.