Vikram Seth Quotes

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Prayer, as a means of drawing ever new strength from Christ, is concretely and urgently needed.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

With the advance of knowledge, therefore, prayer and sacrifice assume the leading place in religious ritual; and magic; which once ranked with them as a legitimate equal, is gradually relegated to the background and sinks to the level of a black art.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

We cannot really know God if we do not pray.

Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.