Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or by water.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.