Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Prayer

• 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 are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Spiritual

• 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 a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

• 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 hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Prayer, Powerful

• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

• My greatest weapon is mute prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Silence, Weapons

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

• Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Heart, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

• No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Blessing, Effort

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Real

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

• Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Successful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

• 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 as life itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Death, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, May, Evening

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.53, North Atlantic Books

• 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 toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Prayer, Presence Of God

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.92, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Philosophy, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

• Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Desire, Repentance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Heart, Lips

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Soul, Satyagraha

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Selfish

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

• Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Inward, Communion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Honorable, Nations

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dream, Prayer, Night

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.53, North Atlantic Books

• Without prayer there is no inward peace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Prayer, Inward

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.93, Rajpal & Sons

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