“How would you love someone without prayer? I mean, what would it look like if you loved someone but couldn’t pray for that person? It was a puzzle to me. I couldn’t figure out what it would look like.

Love without being able to pray feels depressing and frustrating, like trying to tie a knot with gloves on. I would be powerless to do the other person any real good.

People are far too complicated; the world is far too evil; and my own heart is too off center to be able to love adequately without praying.

I need Jesus.”

-Paul Miller, The Praying Life