We must not make rules for others. Every life is its own battlefield. And every man must make his own rules and fight his own fight. But if you can manage the fighting line so as to get the morning-hour quiet, with the door shut, yourself off alone, so much alone that you are not alone, that is victory. If you stumble there, it will be a tale more or less of defeat and discipline all along the time.
Prayer needs time.
Then prayer needs a place . Oh, you can pray anywhere, on the train, in the trolley, nursing a baby, sweeping the floor, chopping a typewriter, measuring calico, dictating a letter - you can pray anywhere. But you are not likely to. You are very unlikely to, unless you have been off in the quiet place alone with Jesus. And, humanly, Jesus was an Oriental, and the Orient has no privacy, characteristically.