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  • What is Prayer?

    Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
      Uttered or unexpressed—
    The motion of a hidden fire
      That trembles in the breast.

    Prayer is the burthen of a sigh,
      The falling of a tear—
    The upward glancing of an eye,
      When none but God is near.

    Prayer is the simplest form of speech
      That infant lips can try—
    Prayer...

    James Montgomery

  • The Universal Prayer

    Father of all! in every age,
      In every clime adored,
    By saint, by savage, and by sage,
      Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

    Thou great First Cause, least understood,
      Who all my sense confined
    To know but this, that thou art good,
      And that myself am blind;

    Yet gave me, in this dark estate,
      To see the good from ill;
    ...

    Alexander Pope