Neville Goddard on prayer

“Prayer is the art of assuming the feeling of being and having that which you want.”

“Prayer is not so much what you ask for, as how you prepare for its reception.”

“prayer to the world means begging, but not in the Bible. it's thanksgiving it's praise it's not petition”

“Prayers to be successful must be claiming rather than begging.”

“Prayer is the art of yielding to the wish and not the forcing of the wish.”

“To know what you want is the start of prayer.”

“I call it praying when I take you before my mind's eye and see you as I would like to see you”

“The mind in prayer is in a state of relaxation and receptivity akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep.”

“My third way of praying is simply to feel thankful.”

“Praying then, is seen to be recognizing yourself to be that which you now desire, rather than its accepting form of petitioning a God that does not exist for that which you now desire.”

“In prayer you are called upon to believe that you possess what your reason and your senses deny.”

“They are really dramatizations of the technique of prayer, for prayer is the secret of changing the future.”

“PRAYER, like sleep, is also an entrance into the subconscious.”

“To pray successfully then, you must yield to the wish, that is, feel the wish fulfilled.”

“The only condition required is that you believe that your prayers are already realized.”

“Therefore, man is the spring of action, the directing mind, and the one who grants the prayer.”

“Prayer is an illusion of sleep which diminishes the impression of the outer world and renders the mind more receptive to suggestion from within.”

“Your prayers will not be less devout because you turn to your own consciousness for help.”

“He isn't going to get down on his knees and pray to any external God, if he knows how to pray.”

“It's so easy to pray to an external God and then forget it.”

“When you emerge from the moment of prayer, it is as though you were shown the happy and successful end of a play although you were not shown how that end was achieved.”