Quotes About Adherence

It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.

Obedience is the opener of eyes.

If one does not wish bonds broken, one should make them elastic and thereby strengthen them.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach.

blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.

Blind adherence to contextualization alters our preaching in at least three ways, and none of them is for the better. First, it impairs our perspective in the study—in his preparation of his sermon, the preacher becomes preoccupied with the world rather than God's Word. This leads to impressionistic preaching.

I'm not good with speeding," said Shirley, sounding more than a little anxious. "The speed limits are there for a reason. Cars aren't meant to go fast.

We can change our wives," he said. "We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

We can change our wives. We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team

Kenda Creasy Dean observed, "The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a do-good, feel-good spirituality that has little to do with the Triune God of Christian tradition and even less to do with loving Jesus Christ enough to follow him into the world."13

When you're a film-maker, sometimes you have to be a slave to continuity.

When you were under contract, you did what you were told to do.

I was expected to sit at the table, learn how to eat properly.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.

Good rice sticks together

This was a wise resolution, and the witch-queen abided by it for many years. She was not very bad, this Zixi, for it must be admitted that few have the courage to acknowledge their faults and strive to correct them as she did.

Take note of the fact that I am a follower (of the religion) and not an innovator.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.