Short Prayers Are Godly Prayers

I found the following enlightening comment in the Introduction to Arthur Pink's "A Guide to Fervent Prayer":

"The prayers of the apostles are short ones. Not some, or even most, but all of
them are exceedingly brief, most of them encompassed in but one or two
verses, and the longest in only seven verses. How this rebukes the lengthy,
lifeless and wearisome prayers of many a pulpit. Wordy prayers are usually
windy ones. I quote again from Martin Luther, this time from his comments on
the Lord's prayer directed to simple laymen:"

"When thou prayest let thy words be few, but thy thoughts and affections many,
and above all let them be profound. The less thou speakest the better thou
prayest. . . . External and bodily prayer is that buzzing of the lips, that
outside babble that is gone through without any attention, and which strikes
the ears of men; but prayer in spirit and in truth is the inward desire, the
motions, the sighs, which issue from the depths of the heart. The former is
the prayer of hypocrites and of all who trust in themselves: the latter is
the prayer of the children of God, who walk in His fear."