Magnificence of True Prayer

Alexander Whyte, Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer, pp. 4-5:

Prayer is the magnificent office it is, because it is an office of such a magnificent kind...an ejaculation, a sigh, a sob, a tear, a smile, a psalm, is far greater to God than than all the oblations, and incense, and calling of assemblies, and solemn meetings of Jerusalem, because repentance and faith and love and trust are in that sob and in that psalm. And the magnificence of true prayer -- its nobility, its royalty, its absolute divinity -- all stand in this, that it is the greatest kind of act and office that man, or angel, can ever enter on and perform. Earth is at its very best, and heaven is at its very highest, when men and angels magnify their office of prayer and of praise before the throne of God.