“If you would understand the religious man’s conception of the relation of God to His world, observe him on knees. For prayer is the purest expression of religion and in prayer we see religion come to its rights.

Did ever a man pray thus: ‘O God, Thou knowest that I can do as I choose and Thou canst not prevent me, Thou knowest that my fellow men are, like me, beyond Thy control, Thou knowest that nature itself goes its own way and Thou canst but stand helplessly by and watch whither it tends'?

No, the attitude of the soul in prayer is that of entire dependence for itself, and of complete confidence in God’s all-embracing government. We ask Him graciously to regulate our own spirit, to control the acts of our fellow men, and to direct the‘ course of the whole world in accordance with His holy and beneficent will. And we do right. Only, we should see to it that we preserve this conception of God in His relation to His world, when we rise from our knees; and make it the operative force of our whole life.” — B.B. Warfield, Some Thoughts on Predestination (1916)