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Definition of Prayer

Prayer One who prays; a supplicant. The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body. The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer. The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers. Related Definitions: Act, Addressed, Addressing, Adoration, An, And, As, Asking, Being, Body, Confession, Court, Divinity, Earnest, Entreaty, Especially, Expressed, Extemporaneous, Favor, Form, Formula, God, Hence, In, Legislative, Memorial, Of, Offering, One, Or, Petition, Prayer, Praying, Public, Repeat, Request, Secret, Supplicant, Supplication, Supreme, Thanksgiving, The, To, True, Used, Who, Written

Prayer Quotations The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. Abraham Joshua Heschel Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. Soren Kierkegaard In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mohandas Gandhi I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. Voltaire

Prayer Translations prayer in Afrikaans is gebed prayer in Dutch is gebed prayer in German is Gebet prayer in Italian is preghiera prayer in Latin is votum, prex precis

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