St. John of Kronstadt: Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer.
Remember that not a single word is lost during prayer, if you say it from your heart; God hears each word, and weighs it in a balance.
Sometimes it seems to us that our words only strike the air in vain, and sound as the voice of one crying in the wilderness. No, no; it is not so!...The Lord responds to every desire of the heart, expressed in words or unexpressed.
St. John of Kronstadt
