"There is a very real wisdom in the institution of special evening and morning prayer, for it is at those time that the mind is most plastic, and habits of thought most easily formed. Let a man deliver his evening prayer from the heart, and then, dismissing worldly thoughts, woo sleep by thinking about the Kingdom of God, and his mind will be in the right condition for the silent night's work of renovation. It is by the encouragement of such ennobling thoughts that the positive habits are formed and evil habits are excluded. In this way also our power of controlling thought may be increased, and instead of being guided by the imaginations of an evil heart, the faculty of imagination may become subservient and fill a most useful part of giving us a broader outlook, and in enabling us to realize and bring home to our minds the truths we have learned." ~Conviction & Conduct, pp. 165-166