Dave Ramsey Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

God helps those who help themselves.

God helps those who help themselves.

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

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

The gods help them that help themselves.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

Many of us use God's love like the manna in the desert. We take what we need for particular situations and then go our own way - thinking we can handle other situations ourselves.

If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, he'll heal your body and fix every one of your problems, if you need that, you're lost.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

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.

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

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