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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.
Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.