heart-prayers

Updated: October 12, 2025

Now she falls at His feet, and with 'beautiful shamelessness, as Chrysostom calls it, repeats her prayer, but this time with pathetic brevity, uttering but the one cry, 'Lord, help me! The intenser the feeling, the fewer the words. Heart-prayers are short prayers.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII