"A primary purpose of prayer is to impress on us the personality and character of Christ. We want to become like Jesus, so the life that we live is no longer ours but Christ living in us and through us. Prayer is less about trying to get God to do something we want God to do and more about getting ourselves to do what God wants us to do and to become who God wants us to become."
- Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Enuma Okoro (from Common Prayer - A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals)