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Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer. -- Mary Baker Eddy
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. -- Georges Bernanos
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer. -- J. I. Packer
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. -- Leonard Cohen
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. -- Kevin DeYoung
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven. -- Michele Bachmann
To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word. -- George Muller
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics. -- Artur Davis
Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.' -- David A. Bednar
When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him. -- Anne Graham Lotz
True prayer is asking God what He wants. -- William Barclay
Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving. -- John R. Rice
Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it. -- Sonia Choquette
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella. -- Barbara Johnson
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power. -- Elizabeth George
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something -- Dennis Prager
My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part. -- Tony Robbins
Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him. -- Basilea Schlink
Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it. -- Graham Cooke
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. -- Kathleen Norris
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. -- Karen White
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls. -- Dutch Sheets
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. -- Mother Teresa
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends. -- Thomas Watson
Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud. -- Gerald Vann
Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth." -- Oswald Chambers

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