Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

As a practising Anglican I go to church on a Sunday.

Went to church and fasted all day.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.