Quotes about Practice

Many of us who affirm and practice spiritual gifts would feel more comfortable among anticharismatics who are at least grounded in Scripture than among such flaky charismatics.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

Christianity has a principle, "Hate the sin but love the sinner," which is more easily preached than practiced. If Christians could simply recover that practice, modeled so exquisitely by Jesus, we would go a long way toward fulfilling our calling as dispensers of God's grace.

Christians tend to be Augustinian in theory but Pelagian in practice. They work obsessively to please other people and even God.

It is usually considered good practice to examine a thing for one's self before echoing the vulgar ridicule of it. But in connection with the Bible, such scholarly restraints are somehow regarded as out of place.

The evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.