The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.
If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. . . . Try science.
Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
And when you can't do nothing else - pray.
Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life.
Remember to pray fervently.
If you really want to change someone's life today, don't just pray for them. . . pray with them.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
Aretmis gripped her bow. “Let us pray I am wrong. ” Can goddesses pray?
She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.
I pray because I can't help myself.
Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown. ' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.
Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.
Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies. " Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse. . . . I never pin up my hair with prose. "
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance. " We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.
Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.
When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.