I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
