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

Aesop
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  1. If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way! - Alexander Pope

  2. Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka

  3. I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. - Martin Luther

  4. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway. - Nicholas Sparks

  5. Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. - Thomas Aquinas

More Quotes By Aesop
  1. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  2. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  3. ...convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

  4. No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

  5. Once a wolf, always a wolf.

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