Bayard Taylor Quotes

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

Fear God and work hard.

He who labours, prays.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

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

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Without labor nothing prospers.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.