“The Lord Prayer is truly the prayer that spans the world; the world of everyday trifles and universal history, the world with its hours of joy and bottomless anguish, the world of citizens and soldiers, the world of monotonous routine, sudden terrible catastrophe, the world of carefree children and at the same time of problems that can shatter grown men… The truth is we cannot pray the Lord’s prayer to the glory of God unless at the same time we pray against ourselves. And he who has not learned to pray this prayer de profundis — out of the depth of his repentance — has not really prayed at all.” — Helmut Thielicke

“Prayer is an interruption of personal ambition” — Rowland Hogben