...Really, when you come right down to it, there are only four basic prayers. Gimme! Thanks! Oops! and Wow!... Yep. Wow! are prayers of praise and wonder at the creation. Oops! is asking for forgiveness. Gimme! is a request or a petition. Thanks! is expressing gratitude. That’s the entire Judeo-Christian doxology. That’s what we teach our kids in religious school.
Rabbi Marc Gellman as quoted in Zev Chafets, "The Right Way to Pray?", New York Times Magazine. September 20, 2009.
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