Quotes about Practice

How do you learn to pray? Well how do you learn to swim? Do you sit in a chair with your feet up drinking coke learning to swim? You get down and you struggle. That's how you learn to pray.

Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

One learns by doing, not by learning to do.

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.