Malcolm Boyd Quotes

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Ultimately, when you write from a vantage point of faith, humility, and openness to the world around you, people have to respond because those same truths are instilled in them.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

When I'm in the house of God, I don't wear my jewelry, if you're looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

I fear no one; beg from no one except my God to whom I submit and from whom I receive all bounties. My Prophet is my grandfather; my Imam is my father and my religion is sincerity and justice

I pray everywhere and with all my heart.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.