Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2007

March 24

Motivation is what gets you started.  Habit is what keeps you going. 

Jim Ryun

“I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:25

Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them.  And you don't have to keep them, either.  They keep you. 

Frank Crane

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. 

Spanish Proverb

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. 

Horace Mann

Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them. 

Confucius

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. 

Somerset Maugham

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center.  So does a person. 

Norman Vincent Peale

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it. 

Leo Aikman

Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. 

Yiddish Proverb

When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider God has made the one as well as the other.

Ecclesiastes 7:14

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it. 

Carrie Latet

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day  your life really begins. 

Bob Moawad

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10

Dear Lord, help me to clean up the garden of my life. Keep me motivated and walking down the path you want me to follow. Bless me with self-control forming good habits and dropping the bad. Lead me away from the clamor of the crowd, from my busyness, my frantic activity. Teach me how, for this moment, this hour, this day, to rest in the peace of your presence. Help me to plant a new seed in my life and to become a fresh flower and to be a warm sunshine to those in my life, those I will meet and to myself.  Amen.