Aleister Crowley Quotes

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

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

I was always spiritual, even as a child. I was taught to pray, show gratitude. We had an attitude of gratitude. Even if life was ugly, bad or sad - we prayed.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

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

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

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

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.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

I pray and I meditate every day. It can be a great, great asset.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

A vague religion—all about feeling God in nature, and so on—is so attractive. It is all thrills and no work; like watching the waves from the beach. But you will not get to Newfoundland by studying the Atlantic, and you will not get eternal life by simply feeling the presence of God in Flowers or music.

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

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

The men who have most fully illustrated Christ in their character and have most powerfully affected the world for Him have been men who spend so much time with God as to make it a notable feature in their lives.

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.