51. HABITS       --page 444--

         To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke (Isa.58:6).

         1. Habit is a cable; you weave a thread of it everyday, and at last you cannot break it.
         2. Cultivate good habits--the bad ones all grow wild.
         3. The best throw with the dice is to throw them away.
         4. Habit with some people is the test of truth, "it must be right: I've done it from my youth."
         5. The toughest form of mountain climbing is getting out of a rut.
         6. We keep having to have revolutions to get out of ruts and break old habits.
         7. I just do what I feel like doing!--The trouble is, too many people have formed bad habits to where they don't feel like doing the right thing anymore.
         8. In eating, a good habit is to quit when you still want more!
         9. The chains of bad habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken--except by the Lord.
         10. To enjoy work, make it a habit.
         11. Gambling is a sickness, a disease, an addiction, an insanity, and is always a loser in the long run.
         12. Game-playing, such as chess and cards, is as addictive as gambling and alcohol and used as a tool of the Devil to waste time!
         13. A craving for sweets is like a craving for drugs or drink or gambling.--It's something the Devil knows can absolutely destroy you!
         14. Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

         (See also No.78, 106, 353, 568, 805, 956, 1299, 1362.)


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