Saint Augustine Quotes

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

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

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

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

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

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Do your best and leave the rest to God.

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

God is on my side, and that's all I need. I get up in the morning, I pray to God. I don't pray to the president, the governor, the mayor, no black caucus, no this and that. I pray to God, and that's the end of it.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.