Prayer Quotes - Page 197

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

I went to a mosque in Philadelphia with [my wife] in December 24, 1999. And we we went to this mosque in Philly, and I just had such a strong reaction to the prayer. And I was really emotionally - I felt really grounded at that time. And so to be in this prayer and the imam is doing the prayer in Arabic and I don't understand a word of Arabic but I just remember these tears just coming down my face and it just really connecting to my spirit in a way that felt like I needed to pay attention to that.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.

My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.