Quotes about Application

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

Too often, however, we tend to read these accounts merely as biblical history without relating them to our lives and our situations. But

Preaching for life change requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. Less first century and more twenty-first century.

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Satan attempts to twist the meaning and therefore the application of God's Word in the hope that we will misuse his promises for self-preservation

And it's frustrating because you've never been taught how to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between your New Year's resolutions and your actual behaviour.

According to James 1:22-25, we can experience God's truth so powerfully that what the Lord wants us to do becomes as plain to us as our face in the morning mirror. But if we do not apply the truth as we meet it, regardless of how wonderful the experience of discovering the truth has been, we deceive ourselves if we think we will be blessed for giving attention to the Bible on those occasions. The one who "will be blessed in his doing" is the one who does what Scripture says.

How does the Word memorized become the Word applied? It happens through meditation.

How will you prove that you are a doer of the Word of God as it's been presented to you here?

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good, unless it be applied.