Quotes about Practice
KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D
— Tony Robbins
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
— Brother Lawrence
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
— Larry Crabb
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
— Catherine Marshall
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
— Dallas Willard
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.
— Marianne Williamson
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
— Bill Hybels
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
— William Wilberforce
The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.
— Miroslav Volf