Prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned God-ward.<\/p>\n
Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is taking our troubles to God. Faith is leaving them there.<\/p>\n
Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n
What you love you worship; true prayer, real prayer, is nothing but loving: what you love, that you pray to.<\/p>\n
Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer. The chief exercise of faith, by which we daily receive God\u2019s benefits.<\/p>\n
John Calvin<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is conversation with God.<\/p>\n
Clement of Alexandria<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the raising of one\u2019s mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.<\/p>\n
John Damascus<\/i><\/p>\n
As soon as we are with God in faith and in love, we are in prayer.<\/p>\n
F. F\u00e9nelon<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the guide to perfection. For the one way to become perfect is to walk in the presence of God.<\/p>\n
Madame Guyon<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the application of the heart to God, and the internal exercise of love.<\/p>\n
Madame Guyon<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the overflowing of the heart in the presence of God.<\/p>\n
Madame Guyon<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is love in need appealing to love in power.<\/p>\n
Robert Moffatt<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the burden of a sigh,<\/p>\n
The falling of a tear,<\/p>\n
The upward glancing of an eye<\/p>\n
When none but God is near.<\/p>\n
James Montgomery<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is a cry of hope.<\/p>\n
Alfred de Musset<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the laying aside of thoughts.<\/p>\n
Evagrius Ponticus<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is an effort to lay hold of God himself, the author of life.<\/p>\n
Sundar Singh<\/i><\/p>\n
Prayer is the breathing in of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n
Sundar Singh<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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