John Calvin Quotes

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering if many of you parents, you couples, have lost that essential moment of kneeling together at the end of the day, just the two of you, holding hands and saying your prayers. If that has slipped away from your daily routine, may I suggest you put it back-beginning tonight!

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

It's much better to play the guitar a half hour a day, every day, than not practice for a week and then jam for five hours one day.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

A well-fashioned day - with a beginning and an end, a purpose and a content, a color and a character, a feel and a texture - takes it place among the many and becomes a valuable memory and treasure. At midnight the winged messengers come and gather up all these pieces and take them off to wherever the mosaic is kept. And surely, on occasion, one messenger says to another, 'Wait 'til you see this one.'

The way we do small things determines the way we do EVERYTHING

You will never have time for prayer; you must make time.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.

If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

I started writing every day. I never stopped.

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.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.