Prayer Quotes
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.
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.
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.
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula.
My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.
Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.
Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.
Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.
If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.
Our every thought, image or affirmation is a prayer. Therefore, if everything you think, feel, say or do is a form of prayer, then make it uplifted and exalted.
If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.