A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
I think of prayer as a spiritual lifeline back to where I most want to be.
Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It's just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around 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.
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.