Quotes about Practical
our primary practical commandment in this life, to love our neighbors: it is not only for their and our good in time, but also preparation for our and their eternal blessedness.
— Peter Kreeft
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
— Hubert Humphrey
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
— Dallas Willard
The body without the soul is nothing but a dead carcass, so just saying these things without doing them is, in the same way, dead. The soul of true religion is the practical part.
— John Bunyan
I have had a deep conviction for many years that practical holiness and entire self-consecration to God are not given adequate attention by modern Christians in this country. Politics, controversy, party spirit, or worldliness have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has sadly fallen into the background.
— JC Ryle
Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.
— CS Lewis
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
— George Eliot
Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom.
— John Milton
We ministers have undoubtedly failed to connect and apply Christianity to the practical everyday problems of the average man. In this, we have failed to follow in Christ's footsteps. For the religion which He taught and revealed in His own life and ministry was an intensely practical and down-to-earth affair.
— Peter Marshall
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Hoosiers are practical people, and Hoosier Republicans in particular have a history of unifying.
— Todd Young
I knew from experience that this statement was true, for I myself had been searching for years to discover a practical, working handbook on human relations.
— Dale Carnegie