Your desire is your prayer; and your desire is without ceasing; your prayer will also be without ceasing.
Augustine of Hippo
Prayer is not merely expressing our present desires. Its purpose is to exercise and train our desires, so that we want what he is getting ready to give us. His gift is very great, and we are small vessels for receiving it. So prayer involves widening our hearts to God.
Augustine of Hippo
The best prayers have more often groans than words.
John Bunyan