Robert A. Cook Quotes

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I pursue God on a daily basis, I'm not stepping into oblivion.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.

I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

Over the years, I've become accustomed to the quiet of that morning meal, a time when I devote myself completely to my faith.