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When you finish your prayers, are there tears in your eyes? Usually we "say" our prayers, not "cry" them. We associate prayer with peace, calm, and strength. We may feel weepy when we begin our prayers, but we expect to be comforted by the end of them. Because there are very seldom tears in our eyes when we pray, our prayers are ineffectual. There are no tears if we mechanically say a childhood prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep." If we doubt the power of prayer, we are not moved enough to have tears.