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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

— John Wesley

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✓Similar Perspectives

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

— Lou Holtz

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

— Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

— Soren Kierkegaard

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

— Charles Spurgeon

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

— Pope Francis

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

— Harvey Fierstein

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

— John Buchan

✗Opposing Perspectives

God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

— Yehuda Berg

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

— Rihanna

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

— Thomas Aquinas