Quotes about Practice

We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Information without execution is poverty.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

For is it not the common experience of all of us - you and I - that we do no incorporate the truth of these propositions in our lives? We say we know, but we do not do as we know. We say we believe, but we do not act like it.

Joy is not the opposite of suffering. If it were, a person practiced in joy could crowd out pain because one couldn't exist with the other. Instead, joy can actually be a companion to suffering.

The idea of sin being able to deceive us, suppressing truth so that we believe a lie, should send shivers down our spines. It is one thing to deceive other people. That is scary enough. It is even more frightening when we realize that each lie we tell leaves us more self-deceived. All practiced sin teaches us to believe lies. WE don't often consider the boomerang effect of our deception. In the end it will get us.