“There can be no gainsaying of the fact that prayer is as natural to the human organism as the rising of the sun is to the cosmic order. …
Prayer is indigenous to the human spirit. It represents a throbbing desire of the human heart. As [Thomas] Carlyle stated in a letter to a friend: ‘Prayer is and remains the native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.‘ …
Men have often tried to dismiss it by affirming that pressing rigidity of natural law makes it impossible. But such a declaration is unconvincing; for there is something deep down within us that makes us know that God works in a paradox of unpredictable newness and trustworthy faithfulness. And so even the most devout atheist will at times cry out for the God that his theory denies. Men always have prayed and men always will pray.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
