“In this great book, our first Moderator bids us ‘theologize on our knees.’” — William C. Robinson, Preface to B.M. Palmer, Theology of Prayer (1980 ed.)

“This consciousness of dependence finds its only full expression in prayer; we lean upon God, and are at rest. It may pour itself forth with a pathos that stirs the heart of sympathy, or despair may muffle ‘the groanings which cannot be uttered’; in either case the intelligent recognition of creature-helplessness leaning upon divine power is the kneeling posture of the soul in prayer.
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As soon as we truly kneel, we touch with our thought the throne of the Most High.” — Benjamin Morgan Palmer (1818-1902), Theology of Prayer (1894), pp. 16, 348