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Prayer Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

65 Prayer quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Prayer is described as the source of inner calm and the only way to feel true peace. It is also presented as a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, and a necessary partner for any effort that hopes for divine blessing. When prayer comes from the heart, the quotes claim it can achieve results that nothing else can, but only if a living faith in God exists.

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My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

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Buddhism in one long prayer.

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Without prayer there is no inward peace.

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Meditation is waiting on God.

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True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the…

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Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

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A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship.

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Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.

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Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

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Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

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It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which…

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

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

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Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary…

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My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is…

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All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in…

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

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My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . .…

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I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them,…

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“Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is…

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where.…

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Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

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The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

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I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan.

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Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

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

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

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A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

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Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

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Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart.

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Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

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Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

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Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

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

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“Where there is life.”

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.