Prostration Quotes:

My body is not good for prostrations.

- Tenzin Palmo

source: Source: fpmt.org

topic: Body, Prostration

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

- G. Campbell Morgan

topic: Kings, Prayer, Attitude, Bowing Down, Prostration

There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Stars, Prostration, Pausing

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

- Wyndham Lewis

topic: Men, Relaxation, Laziness, Prostration

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Average, Annoyed, States, Exasperation, Prostration

There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Giving, Heaven, Earth, Prostration

It's not a matter of how much you know or can define, or how many millions of mantras or thousands of prostrations you have done, or how many months of wangs you've attended. The important thing is whether or not the mind is really changing, whether our negative emotions are really coming under control, whether we are really beginning to understand ourselves, whether our mind is really improving, and whether in our hearts there is genuine love and caring for other people.

- Tenzin Palmo

source: Source: fpmt.org

topic: Heart, Caring, Genuine Love, Prostration

Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living.

- Albert E Cliffe

topic: Positive Thinking, Healthy, Negative, Prostration

Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget it.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

topic: Pain, Heart, Grieving, Prostration, Dua

I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

- Vincent Van Gogh

source: Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

topic: Drinking, Thinking, Paris, Prostration

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

- Richard John Neuhaus

source: Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

topic: Christian, Religious, Believe, Prostration

There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

- Mary Elizabeth Braddon

source: Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.68

topic: Lying, Heart, Feelings, Prostration

In passing around the holy aged house (Kaa'bah), and crossing the Safa and Marwa lanes, in prayer inside the Ka'bah, in bowing and prostration, Kuwait was a prayer throbbed in my heart and uttered by my tongue.. Praying for God to protect us from the evils of ourselves and our bad deeds, Praying for God to keep blessing the people of Kuwait with the grace of unity, not to be torn by a difference, and the grace of love not to be destroyed by disputes, and the grace of progress not to be hampered by prejudices.

- Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

topic: Prayer, Heart, Blessing, Crossings, Prostration

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Hero, Men, Average, Prostration, Hero Worship

Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.

- Earle Birney

source: Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal

topic: Art, Thinking, Perception, Personal Truth, Prostration

Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

- Lucretius

topic: Lying, Grief, Responsibility, Festering, Prostration

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling, “The Gods Of The Copybook Headings”

topic: Heart, Race, Age, Prostration

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Sports, Taken, Healthy, Prostration

She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.

- Dorothy L. Sayers

source: Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Have His Carcase”, p.271, Open Road Media

topic: Crush, Horse, Hero, Godlike, Prostration