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

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.

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.

God in fact does not change: he is faithful to himself.

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.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.