Easier Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

— Thomas a Kempis

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people…

— Idries Shah

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Praying with a lustful heart. “You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on…

— Stephen Kendrick

Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the…

— Radhanath Swami

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

— George Carlin

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson