“Like a flask of lightening, prayer exposes for a nanosecond what I would prefer to ignore: my own true state of fragile dependence…. Prayer helps correct myopia, calling to mind a perspective I daily forget. I keep reversing roles, thinking of ways in which God should serve me, rather than vice versa…. I need the corrective vision of prayer because all day long I will lose sight of God’s perspective.”
Philip Yancey (Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference)