“Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.”
“The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.”
“Pray that you will never have to bear all that you are able to endure.”
“There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.”
“A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.”
“The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.”
“Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.”
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.”
“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
“Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.”
“Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.”
“Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.”
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”
“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
“The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.”
“There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.”
“Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.”
“O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
“Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.”
“Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?”
“A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.”
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
“My prayer to God is a very short one: ''O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous!'' God has granted it.”
“Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.”
“Pray. To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”