Quotes about Application

we can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God.

Why did the Lord inspire Mormon (or Moroni or Alma) to include that in his record? What lesson can I learn from that to help me live in this day and age?

If our Christianity doesn't work at home, it doesn't work.

Information without execution is poverty.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Too much time in academia can actually do you harm. There are a lot of skills that are useful in academia that aren't worth much outside of it.

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

Christianity is much more about living and doing than thinking.

spirituality" which means that things are only found to be true in the doing of them.