Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Habits
Richard Wurmbrand
I found that joy can be acquired like a habit, in the same way as a folded sheet of paper falls naturally into the same fold.
Frederick W Faber
With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost. Sharpness, bitterness, sarcasm, acute observation, divination of motives, – all these things disappear when a man is earnestly conforming himself to the image of Christ Jesus. The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a well-spring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.
Dan Wilt
We may think we are habit-less, but we are not. Our daily habits are forming the deepest parts of who we are, forging us for hope or disappointment, health, or pain in years ahead.
Richard Baxter
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Francois Fenelon
Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into all your daily occupation — speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Katherine Walden
Every single day, we make hundreds of choices without being aware of it. Most of those choices, we make automatically, based on the choices we made yesterday and the day before that. We are creatures of habit, so what habits are you forming today and what impact will they have a year from now?
Based on a chapter in my book, Not Always All Together
John R. W. Stott
A pattern cannot secure our pardon…an example can stir our imagination, kindle our idealism and strengthen our resolve, but it cannot cleanse the defilement of our past sins, bring peace to our troubled conscience or reconcile us to God.
John R. W. Stott
John Climacus
Just as iron, even without willing it, is drawn by a magnet, so is a slave to bad habits dragged about by them.
Dom Chapman
The only way to pray is to pray; and the way to pray well is to pray much. If one has no time for this, then one must at least pray regularly. But the less one prays, the worse it goes.