Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Prayer

• The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Silence, Form

• It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Prayer, Children

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekanand's Chicago Speech: Swami Vivekananda’s Speech At World Parliament Of Religion, Chicago”, p.12, editionNEXT.com

• Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Thinking, Meditation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4515, Manonmani Publishers

• This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Prayer, India

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.924, Manonmani Publishers

• Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

• By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Prayer, Hypocrite, Dark

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