Prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned God-ward.
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Prayer is taking our troubles to God. Faith is leaving them there.
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What you love you worship; true prayer, real prayer, is nothing but loving: what you love, that you pray to.
Augustine of Hippo
Prayer. The chief exercise of faith, by which we daily receive God’s benefits.
John Calvin
Prayer is conversation with God.
Clement of Alexandria
Prayer is the raising of one’s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.
John Damascus
As soon as we are with God in faith and in love, we are in prayer.
F. Fénelon
Prayer is the guide to perfection. For the one way to become perfect is to walk in the presence of God.
Madame Guyon
Prayer is the application of the heart to God, and the internal exercise of love.
Madame Guyon
Prayer is the overflowing of the heart in the presence of God.
Madame Guyon
Prayer is love in need appealing to love in power.
Robert Moffatt
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,
The falling of a tear,
The upward glancing of an eye
When none but God is near.
James Montgomery
Prayer is a cry of hope.
Alfred de Musset
Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.
Evagrius Ponticus
Prayer is an effort to lay hold of God himself, the author of life.
Sundar Singh
Prayer is the breathing in of the Holy Spirit.
Sundar Singh