"God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
True prayer is a hungering desire to know and do the Father's will. It is an unconditional surrender to spiritual law, a period, no matter how brief, when the human will is laid down; it is a realization that God is the only intelligence of the universe, and that He is All. Prayer is learning to turn to God in humility, to listen for the voice of the Christ, to rely on the infinite Father and be comforted by the universal Mother. Prayer implies the truest trust that we can know, for in the mental attitude of prayer we become as little children in the presence of our Father-Mother, God. In true prayer we are assured that there will be an answer, and it is this living faith in God that brings the answer in Love's own way, though in such a form that it can be understood of men.
The southern poet, Sidney Lanier, has written with exquisite sweetness:
