We pray best of all with our ears when we learn the art of listening. Those who have learned the art of stillness are gifted not only with an inner peace but with rich experiences . . . the wonder-filled ones of God. As George Eliot wrote: "If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence."

Edward Hays, Pray All Ways