Practice Quotes

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Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. — Henry Adams
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The variant readings about which any doubt remains among textual critics of the New Testament affect no material question of historic fact or of Christian… — F. F. Bruce
Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice. — Matthew Henry
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice! — Jean-Baptiste Say
Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace… — Ayn Rand
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. — Ayn Rand
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as… — J I Packer
Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come… — J I Packer
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If… — Thomas Brooks
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books… — J C Ryle
In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate â€˜act,â€™ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which… — Judith Butler
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it… — Shunryu Suzuki
So it is not a matter of whether it is possible to attain Buddhahood, or if it is possible to make a tile a jewel.… — Shunryu Suzuki
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. — Shunryu Suzuki
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there… — Shunryu Suzuki
You should rather be grateful for the weeds you have in your mind, because eventually they will enrich your practice. — Shunryu Suzuki
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional… — Shunryu Suzuki
People say that practicing Zen is difficult, but there is a misunderstanding as to why. It is not difficult because it is hard to sit… — Shunryu Suzuki

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