Anyone who wishes to give love must also receive love as a gift...One can become a source from which rivers of living water flow. Yet to become such a source, one must constantly drink anew from the original source, which is Jesus Christ, from whose pierced heart flows the love of God.

(Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est)

Fundamentally, prayer is to place oneself in God's presence and to allow him to love us.

(Jacques Philippe, Time for God)