Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Went to church and fasted all day.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

The body and the soul join in doing the work of the soul, ie. praying, meditating, praising and coming in communion with God.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.