YOU DO NOT PULL THE SHORE TO YOU
Prayer is surrender--surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
(Source: E. Stanley Jones, Liberating Ministry From The Success Syndrome, K Hughes, Tyndale, 1988, 73. From a sermon by Mark Schaeufele, "A Messiah Who Prays" 7/3/2009.)