Quotes about Exercise

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

It's not enough to exercise spiritual gifts; one must exercise them with a measure of emotional intelligence, or they can actually do more emotional harm than good.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

BIOGRAPHY, AS WE said before, involves thinking into the minds of people who did not think the same way we do. And history often involves trying to think into the minds of various individuals and groups who, though living at the same time, thought in very different ways from one another as well as from ourselves. Trying to keep track of the swirling currents of thought and action in Paul's world is that kind of exercise.

I have always believed that exercise is not only a key to physical health but to peace of mind.

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer. "Pray without ceasing"—maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.