Inner Prayer Quotes

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.

It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

It is a dangerous error, surely very widespread among Christians, to think that the heart can pray by itself.

Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.