Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
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.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
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.
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
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 thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.