For our age prayer must be the bringing of the full self to God: all the sexual and aggressive fantasies, the fears and mediocrity, the petty faults and the major turnings away, the grandiose wishes and secret longings, the laziness, the angers, the buried hopes and desires to give and serve, the caring for other people, the hatred of enemies, the pain of the suffering and unfairness in our world, the bounding into praise and the falling-away into sleep in mid-prayer. All this human stuff — ordered, unordered, disordered — is what we must bring in a big sack and dump out and sort through and talk over with God.
— Ann Ulanov, Barry Ulanov, A Forgiving Heart by Lyn Klug, editor