John Ruskin Quotes

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.

A God Jar is anything you wish it to be, in which you can put your wishes, dreams, problems, prayers. You may want to think of it as a spiritual mailbox.

I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for.

Faith exists when absolute confidence in that which we cannot see combines with action that is in absolute conformity to the will of our Heavenly Father. Without all three--first, absolute confidence; second, action; and third, absolute conformity--without these three all we have is a counterfeit, a weak and watered-down faith.

Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.

Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.

Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

Pray as if all depended on God and work as if all depended upon you.