Habit

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1880

HABIT.—Habit is a cable. We weave the thread of it every day, and at length we cannot break it. The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken. To one who murmured because he rebuked him for a small matter, Plato replied: "Custom is no small matter. A custom or habit of life does frequently alter the natural inclination for good or evil." After a series of years winding up a watch at a certain hour, it becomes so much of a routine as to be done in utter unconsciousness; meanwhile the mind and body are engaged in something different.