“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking” (Matthew 6:7).

“The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out” (Leviticus 6:13).

“I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first” (Revelation 2:19).

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).

“But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them” (II Timothy 3:14).