Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.