“William Temple said, ‘People often say that answers to prayer are coincidence, but I’ve noticed that when I pray, coincidences happen, and when I stop praying, the coincidences stop happening.’ And that has been the experience of many Christian people. It isn’t like a machine where you can just put a coin in the slot and expect God automatically to answer it. That would make God our servant. Prayer is rather an attempt in the power of the Spirit to put ourselves as vehicles of the love of God at his service, only then to discover that God works through us, through our prayer, transforming us, but transforming also the world and the situations for which we pray.”

-N. T. Wright-