George Santayana Quotes

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

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

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.

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

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

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

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Every day, I get closer to God. Every day, my will to do the right thing gets stronger.

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

He who labours, prays.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

Efficiency is a great secret that can drop us right into our ideal life path, but it is a hard one to practice and something that takes constant maintenance and work.

I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.

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

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer

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.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.