Quotes about Application
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
— Charles Spurgeon
One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
— Aristotle
One learns by doing, not by learning to do.
— Marty Rubin
Part of growing into an emotionally mature Christian is learning how to apply practically and effectively the truths we believe.
— Peter Scazzero
Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Beirut. What does that say to you? CAMPBELL: It says to me that they don't know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It's a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world.
— Joseph Campbell
Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you apply God's word to your life, you will find that it works exactly as He says it will.
— Joyce Meyer
Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.
— Dave Ferguson
Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.
— James MacDonald
When Paul was exhorted to be baptized and to wash away his sins, there was an evident allusion to the use of water in the ordinance of baptism, and had there been no application of water on which to ground such an allusion, we may be certain that we should never have heard of washing away sins in baptism.
— Adoniram Judson