'Are infant sounds more honest than Shakespeare's sonnets? They are both honest, but the sonnets have far more experience in them. Honesty is essential in prayer, but we are after more. We are after as much of life as possible - all of life if possible - brought to expression in answering God, That means learning a form of prayer adequate to the complexity of our lives.'
Eugene H Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant, p.101.
