Quotes about Practicality

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

If you are avoiding the call of the religious thinking of today's world, and instead are "looking unto Jesus" (Hebrews 12:2), setting your heart on what He wants, and thinking His thoughts, you will be considered impractical and a daydreamer. But when He suddenly appears in the work of the heat of the day, you will be the only one who is ready. You should trust no one, and even ignore the finest saint on earth if he blocks your sight of Jesus Christ.

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.

and to wear sandals, but not a second tunic.

“Now, however,” He told them, “the one with a purse should take it, and likewise a bag; and the one without a sword should sell his cloak and buy one.

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.

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.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

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.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.