"Prayer is not an effort to make contact with God, to bring God to our side. Prayer, as a discipline that strengthens and deepens discipleship, is the effort to remove everything that might prevent the Spirit of God . . . from speaking freely to us and in us. The discipline of prayer is the discipline by which we liberate the Spirit of God from entanglement in our impatient impulses. It is the way by which we allow God's Spirit to move freely."
--From Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, Donald P. McNeill, and Douglass A. Morrison. New York: Doubleday, 1982, p 102.
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