Prayer

"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. In it God shows Himself to us. That He answers prayers is a corollary—not necessarily the most important one—from that revelation. What He does is learned from what He is...'God,' said Pascal, 'instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures the dignity of causality.'"
- C.S. Lewis

John Piper articulates the privilege of prayer in John Piper's way: