“You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.”
“Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.”
“If you don't feel like praying, pray until you do!”
“You are Shenkt? I expected more.”“Pray to whatever god you believe in that you never see more.”“I do not pray.”Shenkt leaned close, and whispered in his ear. “I advise you to start.”
“If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.”
“You have your agency, and inspiration does not—perhaps cannot—flow unless you ask for it, or someone asks for you. No message in scripture is repeated more often than the invitation, even the command, to pray—to ask.”