Excerpt from The Enrichment of Prayer
It is hoped that this collection of prayers and meditations may be of help to those who want to learn to pray. We have to learn to pray. In the heart of the youngest there is an instinct of prayer - a longing for God and a reaching out of our nature to God. Prayer is as much of an instinct as breathing. It is breathing: the vital, sustaining breath of the soul. It is of little value, therefore, to argue with a man that he ought to pray. All men do pray, or at least did so in youth before they stifled their natural desire for fellowship with God. But much of this kind of prayer is crude and uninformed. There is an infinite difference between this and Christian prayer, as revealed to us in our Lord Jesus Christ. It is well to remember that He who knew more about prayer than anyone did not argue about prayer; He prayed. When the disciples saw Jesus pray, they recalled their own wandering, superficial, selfish, resultless prayers and they came to Him in private with the earnest request, "Lord, teach us to pray."
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