Astonishing Doctrine

Prayer "The Prayer that does not succeed in modulating our wishes, in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious tumultuous expectation into quiet surrender, is not true prayer. The life is most holy in which there is least of petition and desire and most of waiting on God, that in which petition often passes into thanksgiving. Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wishes and leaves or merges it into God's will. The divine wisdom has given us prayer not as a means to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them. Not as a means to escape evil but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it." - Frederick William Robertson