Prayer Rituals Quotes

When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.

Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It's about being respectful to elders. It's about praying five times a day. It's about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It's about inheritance, and it's about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life.

I always pray. I'm quite religious. I've had the beads since I can remember.

I come from an orthodox Muslim family.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies.

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

My dad was a strict Muslim. He had a lot of rules.

In this mosque also there are a great many students who never leave it, occupying themselves unremittingly in prayer and recitation of the Koran ... The townsfolk supply their needs of food and clothing, although students never beg for anything of the kind from them

Rahul Gandhi does not know Indian culture, so when he went to offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple, he sat in a position as if he was offering namaaz.

I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.