Quotes about Method

The Spirit's work in the renewal of things proceeds according to a fixed, systematic method, in certain distinct stages.

It isn't about what you do, but how you do it

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

It is this strict side of the ascetic's life that is perhaps the least understood, not only by our culture, but also by other Christians. Especially among evangelicals, who champion salvation by grace through faith, a strict faith can seem perilously close to legalism; and in some cases, it might be. For healthy ascetics, however, strictness is a cherished method of expressing love for God.

That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is lo

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.

When one employs a method of verifying miracles that insists that they be replicable in controlled settings, yet regards as natural and nonmiraculous any event that is so replicable,[121] one has framed the method so as to secure the expected antisupernatural outcome.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.