“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
