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Prayer Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
- My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
- Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
- Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth…
- It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion…
- I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.
- Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
- God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
- Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
- 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…
- 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…
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be…
- Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer…
- The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I…
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