The immediate person believes and fancies that the main thing when he prays,
what he is particularly occupied with, is that God hears what it is he is praying for.
And yet in the truly eternal sense it is just the opposite:
it is not when God hears what is being prayed for that the true prayer relationship occurs
but when it is the one who prays who continues to pray until
it is he who is the one hearing, who hears what God wills.