Tyler Staton in Pray Like Monks, Live Like Fools:

To pray is to risk being naive, to risk believing, to risk playing the fool. To pray is to risk trusting someone who might let you down. To pray is to get our hopes up. And we’ve learned to avoid that. So we avoid prayer.

As a church, as Christians, we have to pray. We’ve tried busyness. We’ve tried putting on a good face for the world to make the world like us. We’ve tried building mountains of knowledge.

We need to pray.