Is that your take on this passage???!!! IT'S A SECRET???!!!
WOW! All this time I thought that it meant that God would sooner hear a whispered or even silent paryer from a person secreted within a closet that the PUBLIC RANTINGS AND GESTICULATIONS . . . BLASTINGS FROM TV's . . . I thought it meant that a silent prayer - unspoken - from a pure heart had more of a chance for an audience with God than public prayer.