Quotes About Practice

You look like her, in that dress," our father told me shyly, unaccustomed to complimenting me. He added, as I stepped on his foot, "You don't dance like her." "I haven't had her practice." I said amiably.

Faith isn't what you think, what you 'believe'. It's what you do.

Writing is a craft and needs constant practice.

After this is kept up long enough, it changes from pretense to reality, and the man does in very fact become fearless by sheer dint of practicing fearlessness when he does not feel it.

Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

We do not just hear what Jesus said to do and try to do that. Rather, we also notice what he did, and we do that too. We

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

Every single thing that Jesus taught us to do was something he had put into daily practice in circumstances just like ours.

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

We should not try to love that person; we should train to become the kind of person who would love them. Only then can the ideal of love pass into a real possibility and practice. Our aim under love is not to be loving to this or that person, or in this or that kind of situation, but to be a person possessed by love as an overall character of life.

Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Religion as a historical human practice was therefore not of divine origin, and its developments and activities had to be of an entirely human origin.

We have generated a body of people who consume Christian services and think that that is Christian faith.

The lessons I taught you, the tradition I have passed on, all that you heard me say or saw me do, put into practice; and the God of peace will be with you (Phil. 4:9, NEB).

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

Professing to believe has, sadly, played a large role in the practice of religion. It has profoundly stained our understanding of what religion is. Some people seem to profess belief in God "just in case" there is a God. But they neither are committed to nor believe in the idea that God exists.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist

Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.

secret's value is not in what you know, but in what you do.

First of all, said Serafim, there are no advanced skills; there is only skillful movement.

For some reason it's as difficult, perhaps more difficult, this time. Dying should become easier with practice.

She is practicing because she knows there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.