In prayer we have to manufacture our own prayer. ‘Prayer is the raising up of the mind and heart to God’—not the mind and heart but my mind and heart; it is personal—at least, it should be. It is an art like anything else is—an art to be learnt, not some special gift given to one and not to another. We all have it; some have it and don't use it. Take any other gift—memory, reasoning, will-power—we all have them to a certain degree.