Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.
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.
Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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.
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.
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.
Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya.
Without prayer there is no inward peace.
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.