Religion Quotes

God wants to take the fears that you and I are holding onto with both hands. He throws them aside, effortless, and then takes our empty hands in His and fills them with his love. He is not a hard driver. He wants to provide.

~ Anna White

I had great Reason to consider it as a Determination of Heaven, that in this desolate Place, and in this desolate Manner I should end my life; the Tears would run plentifully down my Face when I made these Reflections, and sometimes I would expostulate with myself, Why Providence should thus compleately ruine its Creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable, so without Help abandon'd, so entirely depress'd, that it could be hardly rational to be thankful for such a Life.

~ Daniel Defoe

How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something intensely personal, a way of reaching my hands out towards my maker. I recite some mantras my parents taught me as a child; there is something reassuring about those ancient words, hallowed by use and repetition over thousands of years.

~ Shashi Tharoor

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

~ Shashi Tharoor

GOD will never disregard or turn away sincere prayers from those who diligently seek Him and humbly call upon His Name.

~ Errol Anthony Smythe

Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago.

~ Errol Anthony Smythe

Stop praying. Get off your knees and do something. There's only one particular need that can be effectively addressed while in the kneeling position. If yours pertains to anything else, then please, seek help elsewhere. 'God helps those who help themselves' is just the Church's way of telling you that it's all a sham. You're really on your own.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

~ Idries Shah

Worldly religion is that which replaces Faith with mere wishful thinking. One must not make the common mistake of putting his faith in all the things he thinks God ought to bless him with; he should instead keep his faith planted in God Himself. Present to Him his needs and wants like a child to his Father, but have faith only in His wisdom and goodness like a servant to his King. God must always be one's Everything before He is one's token to everything.

~ Criss Jami

Prayer is a sacred act for all seasons.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

~ Michael Shermer

But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.

~ Graham Greene

I pray with my knees bow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With much prayer, more grace abounds for every good work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer define the sacred beauties of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing never happens when we pray

~ Benjamin Johncock

God’s presence is the gift of prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God turned the adversity into a blessing. What a divine intervention?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God will fulfil His promise. Wait patiently for God to act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Even if atheists were right--that prayer is wishful thinking--they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to wishing. The importance of prayer is that it is an expression of our spiritual nature, and when we wish for love, peace,for our own good and the good of others we define ourselves as more than flesh and blood. We define ourselves as hoping, loving, and imagining beings who crave to know the source of our being.

~ R. Joseph Hoffmann

The Path of Love, the path of Bhakti Yoga, is the path of Jesus Christ.Love is not a technique.Love knows no technique, so the path of love has no method or technique. If you bring technique to the path of love, you will destroy love.The whole existence is love, and the birds need no technique to love, trees need no technique to love the mountains need no technique to love. Love only needs that you drop the ego, and drop into your heart. It is just like a rose flower opening. You need not open it, it has the capacity to open already. The capacity is intrinsic, and of it's own accord the rose flower will open - and in the same way the heart opens.The heart needs no technique, the heart needs no training.Jesus says: God is love. If you can love, it will happen by itself.Jesus path is the way of love, of prayer. It is a deep love for the whole existence.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

If there is any god, then love is his religion and love is his prayer.

~ Debasish Mridha

O, how easy it is to do religious things if other people are watching! Preaching, praying, attending church, reading the bible, acts of kindness and charity-they all take on a certain pleasantness of the ego if we know that others will find out about them and think well of us. It is a deadly addiction for esteem that we have.

~ John Piper

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

~ Octavia E. Butler

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

~ David Mitchell

My Ten Commandments:1. God is a verb, not a noun.2. Prayers are important only if they lead to corresponding actions.3. Creation is an art. Science provides the tools for the artist. Anybody with the tools is not necessarily an artist.4. Religion involves exclusivity and superiority. Divinity is inclusive and involves humility.5. God by definition should be omnipotent. He should not require intermediation by priests and prophets.6. All prophets have displayed exclusivity and superiority. (Refer to #4 above)7. Rituals involve intermediation and often cruelty towards other fellows of creation. 8. Inclusivity and humility towards all creations of God is divine.9. Rituals are antithesis of the divine. Rituals indicate a god and his intermediaries who are greedy, arrogant, revengeful and cruel.10. God exists only for increasing happiness of all creatures.

~ R. N. Prasher

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film Sophie Scholl

~ Sophie Scholl

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

~ Idries Shah

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

~ Spencer W. Kimball

All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longtigude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.

~ Vikram Seth

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

~ Criss Jami

A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a man with the help his reason creates a God against the forces of nature that are perceived to be as threat, hence the second God. The second God is the property of an individual mind that created it. A child has no reason and hence it has no second God; but it has the first God not yet known to it because the fear is not felt by the child! The first God is felt and known due to the fear ingrained in the instinct and the second God is the surrender and prayer brought out by the reason!

~ Thiruman Archunan

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals, it’s about spending time with Dad.

~ Jared Brock

There comes a point where you need to lose your religion in order to restore your relationship.

~ Jared Brock

We do not want to be beginners (at prayer), but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners all of our lives. --Thomas Merton

~ Sandra Chambers

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

~ Geoffrey Wood

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

~ Geoffrey Wood

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that —just dreams, just play. She’d been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn’t, because she would never escape her need to love him.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Faith is where they learn about their God, but Prayer is where they explore Him.

~ Geoffrey Wood