He that cannot pay,
Let him pray. [ Proverb ]

Thine to work as well as pray. [ Whittier ]

It is hard to pay and pray too. [ Proverb ]

Up, then, with speed, and work;
Fling ease and self away -
This is no time for thee to sleep -
Up, watch, and work, and pray! [ Horatius Bonar ]

If you love me pray make it appear. [ Proverb ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

Work is worship (to labour is to pray). [ Monkish Proverb ]

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. [ Cowper ]

I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A hair of the dog that bit us last night. [ John Heywood ]

Labour as long lived, pray as even dying. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

None can pray well but he that lives well. [ Proverb ]

First worship God; he that forgets to pray
Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day. [ T. Randolph ]

So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves tonight.
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;
I will go down to the chapel and pray. [ Longfellow ]

The day
For whose returns, and many, all these pray;
And so do I. [ B. Jonson ]

I pray you, let none of your people stir me;
I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. [ Goldsmith ]

Gardener, for telling me these news of woe.
Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. [ Shakespeare ]

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
To read it well; that is to understand. [ Ben Jonson ]

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within. [ Socrates ]

Less of your courtship, I pray, and more of your coin. [ Proverb ]

I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given me. [ Bible ]

Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? [ Carlyle ]

I pray God that I may never find my will again.
Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet. [ Rutherford ]

I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. [ Goethe ]

Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray! [ Joseph Roux ]

We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]

God pardon them that are the cause thereof! A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion, to pray for them that have done scath to us. [ William Shakespeare ]

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

We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. [ Colton ]

Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it. [ Martial ]

Pray for and work for fullness of life above everything; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection. [ Mark Twain, The Babies ]

If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. [ Sir John Herschel ]

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. [ Burke ]