The Dignity of Praying

“First, when a person prays, he represents the whole created order, of which he is the conscious, self-reflective part. It is in the prayer of human beings that creation becomes conscious of its relationship to God. Man is the thinking part of the cosmos. In the entire material world, the only thing that even thinks to pray is man. Human thought is the only place where the cosmos is self-reflective.”

-Patrick Henry Reardon, The Jesus We Missed: The Surprising Truth about the Humanity of Christ