Effort Quote by George Arthur Buttrick

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

— Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

— George Santayana

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask…

— George W. Romney

Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer…

— George Arthur Buttrick

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

— Henry D. Moyle

Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.

— Thomas Chalmers

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

— Oswald Chambers

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it…

— Georgia Harkness

Prayer that works is prayer that makes a difference, contemplation that turns into action, on behalf of peace and justice in a troubled and…

— Margaret Silf

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the…

— John Piper

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

— Alistair Begg