Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Life well spent is long.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Beware the hobby that eats.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‚Do as You promised.‘

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Discipline starts every day when the first alarm clock goes off in the morning. I say ‚first alarm clock‘ because I have three, as I was taught by one of the most feared and respected instructors in SEAL training: one electric, one battery powered, one windup.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Prayer is a confession of one’s own unworthiness and weakness.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I just don’t have time to get old!

You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!

I don’t have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

Study men, not historians.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‚O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.‘ And God granted it.

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.