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

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.

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

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 our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

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.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.