A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.