"We do not pray for immortality...but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."

--Antoine de Saint Exupery, 
Night Flight

"...your God is a trinity.  There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each.  They are these, 'Lord, have mercy.  Thee I adore.  Into Thy hands.'  Not difficult to remember.  If in times of distress you hold to these, you will do well."

--Elizabeth Goudge, 
The Scent of Water

"Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.  In it God shows  Himself to us."

--C.S. Lewis
The Efficacy of Prayer