Puritan minister Thomas Brooks (1608 - 80) observed: “God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at. ”
इस टिप्पणी से बन्यन की एक उक्‍ति जोड़ी जा सकती है: “दिली लेकिन मौन प्रार्थना उस प्रार्थना से बेहतर है जिसमें शब्द तो हैं, पर दिल नहीं । ”