Prayer ones the soul to God; for though the soul is always like God in nature and substance when restored by grace, it is often unlike God in its condition, because of human sin. Then prayer becomes a witness that the soul wills as God wills, and it comforts the conscience and leads us to grace. And so he teaches us to pray, and to trust mightily that we will find grace. He beholds us in love and would make us partners in his good deeds; and so he stirs us to pray for that which it pleases him to do.
