Most Christians are convinced that prayer is more than the outward performance of an obligation, in which we tell God things he already knows.  It is more than a kind of daily waiting attendance on the exalted Sovereign who receives his subjects’ homage morning and evening.  And although many Christians experience pain and regret that their prayer gets no further than this lowly stage, they are sure, nonetheless, that there should be more to it.

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1986), Pg. 1

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