Quotes About Practices

Huddles work because they expose people to the learning of a group rather than only one-on-one mentoring. What a member gets to see is not only how the leader is discipling them, but also how the leader is discipling other people as well. Because each person is different, different skills and practices are needed to disciple various personality types.

Actins, practices, and resources that are sometimes part of pursuing genuine faith are not bad things in themselves. In fact, I believe genuine faith leads to changes in outward behavior... But when the externals become substitutes for the real thing--an authentic relationship with God--they have fallen to the level of empty religion.

Religion is actually all of these—belief or doctrine, feeling or attitudes, and a way of life or manner of behaving.

Scientific experiences and practices can easily lead to spirituality, rather than trying to memorize more facts.

He does not here ask the different groups to give up their practices; merely not to judge one another where differences exist. As Paul well knew (though we sometimes forget), this is actually just as large a step, if not larger, than a change in practice itself. The move from regarding something as mandatory to regarding it as optional is vast, just as vast in fact as the move from regarding something as forbidden to regarding it as available.

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything on you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to."1

The internet, as its proponents rightly remind us, makes for variety and convenience; it does not force anything upon you. Only it turns out it doesn't feel like that at all. We don't feel as if we had freely chosen our online practices. We feel instead that they are habits we have helplessly picked up or that history has enforced, that we are not distributing our attention as we intend or even like to

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

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Art is my spiritual path.... Art is my prayer, my ritual, my remembrance of the Divine. Art is the way I knit together the beliefs and practices that guide my life.

as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them

Religious and civic leaders in the Black community held protests in front of Dahmer's apartment and called for a federal investigation into police education and training. The gay community also clamored for recognition of any current police practices and intimated that police failed to investigate these crimes properly because they didn't care if a few Blacks and/or gays went missing.

if i am not in the world simply to adapt to it, but rather transform it, and if it is not possible to change the world without a certain dream or vision for it, i must make use of every possibility there is not only to speak about my utopia, but also to engage in practices consistent with it.

There must be a complete interrogation of the thinking that has allowed such practices to operate without challenge...

Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct conflict with long-held beliefs and well-established practices, on the other hand, and with the urban romanticisation and anthropomorphization of animals (the Bambi syndrome), on the other. We need to change how we do things, but in ways that are driven as much by a respect for science and the realities of nature as by emotion.

An excessive emphasis on invention, rather than on adoption, is a major factor in the low success rate of innovation. The diagram of figure 1.1 compares invention and innovation as practices.

How can one interpret a Bible "full of alien genealogies, barbaric practices, strange prophecies, and eccentric epistles"? While we

You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.

Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,

and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.