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

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Clouds

  Mahatma Gandhi (1975). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Action, Vain

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Long Ago, Should Have

• Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Bird, May

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.364, Oxford University Press

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Ciphers

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.45, North Atlantic Books

• A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Essentials, Scripture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Has Beens

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mahadev Haribhai Desai (1947). “The Nation's Voice”

• Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Praying, Advent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

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