Quotes about Application

Sometimes in our zeal to "apply" a text, we fail to read the text in its context. And more often than we may all care to admit, our frustrations over how to apply a text can be completely resolved with a more accurate interpretation.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

The advertisement was to be answered by letter only. I sent in my testimonial and application, but without the least hope of getting it. Back came an answer by return, saying that if I would appear next Monday I might take over my new duties at once, provided that my appearance was satisfactory. No one knows how these things are worked. Some people say that the manager just plunges his hand into the heap and takes the first that comes.

I think this is an important subject for research, but one has to be careful not to be labelled a crank. If one made a research grant application to work on time travel it would be dismissed immediately. No government agency could afford to be seen to be spending public money on anything as way out as time travel. Instead one has to use technical terms like closed time-like curves, which are code for time travel.

Bonhoeffer was not interested in intellectual abstraction. Theology must lead to the practical aspects of how to live as a Christian.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

Knowing that something is true does not in and of itself ensure that this truth will make a significant difference in our lives.

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life.