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To pray is the greatest thing we can do, and to do it well, there must be calmness, time, and deliberation.
Timothy Jones writes in “The Art of Prayer:”
We don't like to stand speechless or stammering before God, but that doesn't mean God holds it against us when we do. ...
Prayer is answering speech. The first word is God's word. Prayer is a human word and is never the initiating and shaping word simply because we are never first, never primary.
—Eugene ...