God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us. – Author Unknown

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention — on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God — that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. – W. H. Auden

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. – Richard J. Needham

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing. – Saint Francis of Assisi