We are passive in prayer because prayer itself is active. Prayer cannot be measured on a scale of success and failure because it is God’s work – and God always succeeds. When we believe we have failed at prayer, it is because we decided what shape our prayer should have, and are now frustrated that there is nothing we can do to implement our ambition. Prayer is nothing more or less than the interior action of the Trinity at the level of being. This we cannot control; we can only reverently submit.
William Casey, OCSO
Toward God, p. 35
