Quotes About Habit

Habit is necessary to give power.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

You become that to which you are most exposed.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

London is a bad habit one hates to lose.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.

Refrain tonight;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence: the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

America, as Mark Twain observed, nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particular way in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take a strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.