This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
When you pray for anyone, you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
When my children do wrong, I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
God helps those who help themselves.
God help those who do not help themselves.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
