There is a great difference between the skill and the grace of prayer. The skill consists chiefly in a readiness of thought consistent with the various aspects of prayer, and a facility ...

God

Grant me to be

silent before you--

that I may hear you;

at rest in you--

that you may work in me;

open to you--

that you may enter;

empty before you--

that you may fill me.

Let me be still