Yet for all this they never speak to God. They live as though they were animals rather than men with never dying souls. I believe that for many more, prayer is nothing more than a form of words. Some use set patterns of words without any sincere feeling for the things they say. We may be sure that God does not call this praying, even if men do.
Prayer involves much more than words spoken with our lips.
It involves our hearts, or it is not real prayer. No doubt Saul of Tarsus had said many long prayers before the Lord met him on the way to Damascus. The natural desire of our hearts is to get away from God. We do not naturally love him, but fear him. And by nature we have no sense of sin, or feeling of our spiritual needs, or faith in things we cannot see.