The wasted time we are ashamed of, the temptations we succumb to, the weakness and discouragement in our work, the disorder and lack of discipline in our thinking and in our dealings with other people—all these very frequently have their cause in our neglect of morning prayer.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

it is extremely trying when one has once tasted pleasure to abstain from its enticements, so the reward of doing this is proportionately great.

The place to start controlling the cravings of our physical appetites is to reduce our exposure to temptation.

The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

The Lord's Prayer is less than fifty words long, and six of those words are devoted to asking God not to lead us into temptation.

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity—St. Paul.