Spiritual Routine Quotes

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.

I pretty much just train... and go to church on Sundays.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

I don't attend [church] regularly.

I don't like to lay down on my food - it's not good for you. I like to take a walk, then meditate and read the Bible.

If you're not worshiping God on Monday the way you [did] the day before, perhaps you're not worshiping Him at all.

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

I usually eat breakfast twice. I'm usually up at 3 a.m. - do my spiritual work, my affirmations, a little bit of songwriting, get my daily work in order, and by that time I've worked up a bigger appetite.

I don't go to church every week.

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

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the mornings, sometimes on the campaign bus or plane, I always try to catch some time to do that regularly.

I step out for campaigning only after I complete my pooja at home, which is something I do every day.

If I'm home on Wednesdays, I go to Bible study. I get my God time in, definitely.

There is a Wonderful story in the Gospel of Luke (6:12-26). Jesus went up to the mountain to pray at night; in the morning he came down from the mountain and called his twelve apostles around him. In the afternoon he went out on the plain with them to preach the Good News and heal the sick. He had communion with God first, then he had community, and then he went out to do the work of God. That's the order of things.

Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.