Quotes about Practice

If a man preach the Golden Rule as a sound rule of conduct his words will fall upon deaf ears if he does not practice that which he preaches. The most effective sermon that any man can preach on the soundness of the Golden Rule is that which he preaches, by suggestion, when he applies this rule in his relationships with his fellow men.

whatever you have, you use it or you lose it!

Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.

The theology you live out is much more important to your daily life than the theology you claim to believe.

The theory-practice dichotomy that still bedevils many a theological curriculum serves neither seminary nor church. There is a debilitating dichotomy between what Christians believe (doctrine) and how they live their lives (discipleship).

Doctrine is less theoretical than it is theatrical, a matter of doing—speaking and showing—what we have heard and understood.

Theology isn't really theology for us until we live it.

I know I am getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.

Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.