Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

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

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

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

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

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.

As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

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.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.