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

No one can pray well, but those who live well. – Proverb

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. – B. Graham Dienert

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com