Quotes About Prayer

We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

I looked at people like Lil Wayne. I would go to the studio and I would observe Wayne, and I would literally pray. I would say 'God, give me his work ethic'.

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.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work in the name of God, for the solution of all our problems is a spiritual one.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Love is the soul of every life of prayer and of every good work.

I'm kind of pinching myself in the morning. Like, wait, you really did pray to have a body of work that stays diversified and interesting. And I have it!

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

I know I would not be able to work one week if it were not for that continual force coming from Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

Sincere prayer implies that when we ask for any virtue or blessing, we should work for the blessing and cultivate the virtue.

I'm praying we don't go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.

I don't know how to get anything done except getting on my knees and pleading for help and then getting on my feet and going to work.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.