Luther Burbank Quotes

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

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

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

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

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

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

Pray to God and say the lines.

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.

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

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.