It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A man can preach no better than he prays.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.
If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.