The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.
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I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'
I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
I used to wake up in the morning and say, 'Oh, God.' Now I wake up in the morning and look forward to life.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
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.