Pray Work Quotes

#1. You are called to stand up for life! To respect and defend the mystery of life always and everywhere, including the lives of unborn babies, giving real help and encouragement to mothers in difficult situations. You are called to work and pray against abortion.

Pope John Paul II

#2. Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Spellman

#3. When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

John Kramer

#4. As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, "When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn't work in that way - so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!

Daniel C. Dennett

#5. We take the responsibility for our own enlightenment. We can pray for some help, and we may get it. But the work is ours to do.

Darren Littlejohn

#6. My process of preparing for any type of psychic work is to meditate and pray the rosary.

John Edward

#7. I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Susan B. Anthony

#8. Work and Pray always been a good combination.

Amen Muffler

#9. Now, some men tell us they don't have time to pray, but I tell you if any man has God's work lying deep in his heart he will have time to pray.

D.L. Moody

#10. According to Gallup polls, more Americans will pray this week than will exercise, drive a car, have sex, or go to work. Nine in ten of us pray regularly, and three out of four claim to pray every day. To

Philip Yancey

#11. We pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God (Colossians 1:10).

Jim Cymbala

#12. I just pray I don't have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work.

Raymond E. Feist

#13. Prayer doesn't work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

John De Ruiter

#14. The clergy were to pray for all men, the knight to fight for them, and the commoner to work that all might eat.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.

Dorothy Day

#16. God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.

John Piper

#17. Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

Christina Dodd

#18. Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

#19. Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?

Georgette Heyer

#20. So now, out of desperation, I'm back to prayer. I'm back to prayer, sheepishly, because I couldn't make my life work without it. I pray out of sheer lack of options.

Shauna Niequist

#21. Lord,
I pray that you will let my talent bring JOY and BEAUTY to a world that sometimes is dark and discouraging.

Jennifer Allwood

#22. Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.

William Booth

#23. I pray that you will understand the words of Jesus, "Love one another as I have loved you." Ask yourself "How has he loved me? Do I really love others in the same way?" Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

Mother Teresa

#24. Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

Thomas Aquinas

#25. Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

Mark Twain

#26. Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Leopold Schefer

#27. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.

Roberta Bondi

#28. As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#29. When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.

Joyce Meyer

#30. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. Never underestimate the power of a loosely knit group working for a good cause. All of us who work for peace together, all of us who pray for peace together, are a small minority, but a powerful spiritual fellowship. Our power is beyond our numbers.

Peace Pilgrim

#32. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.

J. Oswald Sanders

#33. The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.

Henry B. Eyring

#34. Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.

Oprah Winfrey

#35. Let us pray to God that other gifts may not so satisfy us, that we never grasp the fact that the absence of this grace (humility) is the secret cause why the power of God cannot do its mighty work.

Andrew Murray

#36. work, pray and play not from here

Eman Herzallah

#37. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Nicholas Sparks

#38. I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Dolly Parton

#39. God's work.
My work.
God can find someone else to do my work.
But no one can do God's work.
So, my work is to PRAY that God will do His work through my work.

Tony Yang

#40. I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.

Dwight L. Moody

#41. I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Geri Halliwell

#42. Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

Charles Spurgeon

#43. If chanting is not possible during a certain task, then pray before starting it: 'Lord, give Your blessing so that I may do this work in a manner that pleases You!' At the end, pray again to the Lord for forgiving any mistakes we may have committed during the task consciously or otherwise.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#44. The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.

Alexander MacLaren

#45. Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#46. I call upon the leaders of all nations to work for peace, even when the risks seem high. I call upon Christians to pray and work for peace in whatever constructive ways are open to them. I do not believe this is only a political issue; it is a moral one as well.

Billy Graham

#47. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.

J. Edwin Orr

#48. Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

Bruno Mars

#49. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Hudson Taylor

#50. The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones.

Jason Mandryk

#51. Sometimes, just be. Do not think or worry, do not get angry under stress. Just pray and keep your faith in the Lord. Keep patience and see how well things will work out for you!

Sanchita Pandey

#52. You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

Silouan The Athonite

#53. To achieve success you will have to work hard and pray hard. Nothing worth having comes easy.

Jeanette Coron

#54. Pray not while you can work. Hope is the least of what life can afford you, never the best. Hope is a plague, never a blessing, especially when the answer is sought not from us but from others. It is unqualified burden to expect something from nothing.

Dew Platt

#55. Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Francis Chan

#56. I am amazed that people want to ask me questions about God's work in my life. The interviews are a great way to share God's life-changing message and I pray that God continues to open this door for Christians.

Joyce Meyer

#57. You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.

Jussie Smollett

#58. Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave

Michael Lee West

#59. We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We

Priscilla Shirer

#60. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

Corrie Ten Boom

#61. Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#62. If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

John Ruskin

#63. In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.

Hesiod

#64. When you pray as much as you work; you achieve as much as you dream.

Keysha Jade

#65. Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

Phillips Brooks

#66. When in doubt, stay and pray. Expect God to work out your situation at hand. The worse your scenario is the greater and better victory God will prove to you.

Brian Summy

#67. I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Hudson Taylor

#68. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#69. The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#70. If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord's example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.

J.C. Ryle

#71. Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Dave Ramsey

#72. Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Jerry Reed

#73. Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

Jimmy Carter

#74. Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.

Dillon Burroughs

#75. Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away
This is no time for thee to sleep
Up, watch, and work, and pray!

Horatius Bonar

#76. Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right.

Mark Batterson

#77. I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

John Bunyan

#78. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Samuel Chadwick

#79. I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.

Jennifer Allwood

#80. Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Zora Neale Hurston

#81. Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Dwight L. Moody

#82. Tim Burton ... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.

Casper Van Dien

#83. Our motto instead is, "Work - or do anything at all, so long as you do not pray, or even come to an awareness of your frailty." Turn up the noise.

Anthony Esolen

#84. Sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire.

Ramses Shaffy

#85. They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

Mark Batterson

#86. At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul. The power of life comes from within; go there; pray; meditate. Reach for those luminous places in yourself.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#87. Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#88. [R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.

Daniel Henderson

#89. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#90. Now I see that God prefers to work through intermediaries - Mary and the saints ... He wants us to pray through Mary and not only directly.

Peter Kreeft

#91. I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

Florence Griffith Joyner

#92. There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

Angus Buchan

#93. While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God.

Andy Murray

#94. Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray.

Leonard Ravenhill

#95. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.

Joyce Meyer

#96. Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

R.A. Torrey

#97. A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

J.C. Ryle

#98. Pray always, and be believing, and all things shall work together for your good.

Thomas S. Monson

#99. Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Phillips Brooks

#100. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.

John Piper