Prayer

"WE need to pray to God, not in order to make known to Him our needs or desires but that we ourselves may be reminded of the necessity of having recourse to God's help in these matters."

~St. Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, II-II, Q. 83, Art. 2, ad. 1.

The Virgin Mary in Prayer, by Albrecht Dürer.
Oil on lindenwood, 1518; Staatliche Museen, Berlin.