It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

Peter Kreeft
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When we come to God in prayer we should not expect God to answer all our questions immediately. Sometimes we may feel that we have not said what we need to say, and so we repeat our prayer again and again. Yet if this is so, it is because we have not said what we need to say.

Source: Prayer For Beginners

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