We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Just because we want something so bad does not mean that God wants it for us, too.
The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.
God knows, we don't want prayer.