Connected Quote by Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

“As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

— Charles Spurgeon

I remember one of my first prayers when I became a Christian was simply, 'God, provide a job for me. I don't care how…

— Kurt Warner

To work is to pray.

— John Singer Sargent

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

— Timothy Keller

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route…

— Gloria Gaither

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

— Henry D. Moyle

“Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.”

— Andrew Murray

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish…

— Philip Yancey

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

— Hudson Taylor

Labor, you know, is prayer.

— Bayard Taylor