Dayananda Saraswati Quotes

Pray in faith.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

During the rests - pray.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

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

Until you pray, God cannot work.