"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." ― Saint Augustine Topic(s): Faith Tags: depended, everything, though More From Saint Augustine "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." "Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point." "Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible." More In Faith "But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday."― Miley Cyrus "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."― Samuel Butler "While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing – good for our political culture."― Jon Meacham