Quotes about Practicality

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality... It should be chosen for durability rather than display.

and to wear sandals, but not a second tunic.

It is most unfortunate that, in the long history of the church, "faith" has been almost everywhere transubstantiated into "belief," which transposes the concrete practicality of trust into a cognitive enterprise. How ludicrous that in the long, oppressive history of orthodoxy—which guards cognitive formulations—that those who enforce right belief seem most often to be themselves unable or unwilling to engage in deep trust.

Produce what you consume; draw from the native element the necessaries of life. Permit no vitiated taste to lead you into the indulgence of expensive luxuries, which can only be obtained by involving yourselves in debt.

The Lord wants us to follow His righteous life, but yet we have to exist in the 21st century. You can't be going about riding a bicycle and to travel the world... that is not smart.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

The Christian of academic tastes accuses his brother of undue emotionalism, of shallow argumentation, of cheap methods of work. On the other hand, your practical man is ever loud in his denunciation of academic indifference to the dire needs of humanity. The scholar is represented either as a dangerous dissemination of doubt, or else as a man whose faith is a faith without works.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.