""Man is put together to be a being of prayer. At the deepest level, man realizes - in prayer - his humanity in which God created him. Why does the heart not respond to it spontaneously, from the very beginning? Because the passions of the soul and the body have murdered man's heart, and taken control of it. For this reason, at the beginning, a person needs to force himself to pray, and then his heart will welcome it and take joy in it; because it matches what is deeply rooted in him, even if it was hidden at first."
-Fr. Touma Bitar- The Goal of Earthly Life: Prayer
