He may lay his ear close to your heart, and he will hear its throbbings; but he cannot hear your feelings, your desires.

Yet God knows all that goes on in your soul.
Every thought that flies through your brain is heard in heaven.
"O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, Thou understandest my thought afar off.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether." We need not trouble ourselves, therefore, if we cannot get our wishes into words when we pray, for God hears wishes, heart-longings, soul hungerings and thirstings.

The things we cannot say in speech of the lips, we may ask God to take from our heart's speech.

There is not the feeblest, faintest glimmer of a desire rising on the far-away horizon of our being, but God sees it.

There is not a heart-hunger, not a wish to be holier and better, not an aspiration to be more Christ-like, not a craving to live for God and be a blessing to others, not the faintest desire to be rid of sin's power, but God knows of it.