Be not therefore like them: for your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
You do not then pray in order to teach God your wants, but to move Him, that you may become His friend by the importunity of your applications to Him, that you may be humbled, that you may be reminded of your sins.
