Quotes about Performance

The biblical revelation is about awakening, not accomplishing. It is about realization and not performance principles.

It is religion's job to teach us and guide us on this discovery of our True Self, but it usually makes the mistake of turning this into a worthiness contest of some sort, a private performance, or some kind of religious achievement on our part, through our belonging to the right group, practicing the right rituals, or believing the right things.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

To do something is in every man's power.

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

You will always worry - a wee lad from Edinburgh going up on stage in Glasgow.