I do pray from the heart. I get down on my knees in the evening by the side of my bed and read from My Daily Bread by Father Paone that my father had in Vietnam . I say a prayer of thanks to the Lord about all the great things he gave me that day. Then if I can I'll say a rosary, which I suppose you can say is "spouting memorized prayers over and over". But what it does is it focuses me to concentrate and offer each prayer in a manner that is like a discipline. To me it's like prayer pushups. Keeps my mind focused... Like This Hail Mary is for my sinfulness please forgive me as I approach death... or this Our Father is to thank you for letting me have my mother one more day.. or these Hail Mary's are offered in prayer to protect my children as they go through life..or offer them guidance to find their paths or ease their worries..
The verbiage and manner in which you write and the ability to quote scriptures to try and inflict humiliation and discomfort in me shows everybody more about yourself than about my feeble efforts to somehow please the Lord.
I have only pity for someone like yourself that is so lonely he has to troll a website to find conflict in order to justify himself. I'll pray for you and the others here that seem more intent on arguing about the number of pebbles on the beach than of the beautiful sunset on the horizon.
Take a close look at the yourself and what you wrote. Look at the spirit in which it was written. You don't have to answer to me. The Lord knows what's in your heart. He knows the intent and meaning of the words, the content and your motives. Sleep well my friend, my conscience is clear. But I can only answer to my motive, my intent, my silly prayers........, you'll have to answer for yourself.