Matthew 6:7
Douay-Rheims
And when you are praying, speak not much, as the heathens. For they think that in their much speaking they may be heard.
John Chrysostom
You do not then pray in order to teach God your wants, but to move Him, that you may become His friend by the importunity of your applications to Him, that you may be humbled, that you may be reminded of your sins.
Source details
A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:7-8
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.