Quotes about Practice

While it's calming to be reassured, it never lasts. As soon as we hear the words, the feeling begins to fade away. There's never enough reassurance to make up for a lack of commitment to the practice. We have no choice other than to trust ourselves enough to lead the way.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

So I offer my definition of theology: theology is the application of Scripture, by persons, to every area of life.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he waited, he heard the Lord's voice coursing through his spirit almost audibly. Other times he heard nothing, but he felt filled up and satisfied and understood.

Custom is second nature.

Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.