“Almost always I realise the existence of God – always I believe in Him with my intellect and turn to Him with my heart but I am anxious for a closer and more permanent relationship.

 

Almost always I believe in the spiritual efficacy of prayer and often I am included to pray: sometimes the power to put my cry in words will come – sometimes it will not come.

 

I shall write those prayers I can express so as to open the channel wider and enable me to recall past prayers when I cannot uplift fresh appeals. Let me know my wants if I can know nothing else.”

 

Alfred Deakin 1884 “The Boke of Praer and Praes”