Andrew Chen

“He had thought that to pray was to talk; he learned that to pray is not only to keep silent, but to listen. And that is how it is: to pray is not to listen to oneself speak, but is to come to keep silent, and to continue keeping silent, to wait, until the person who prays hears God.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses