Quotes about Action

Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

We must pray and do our daily work, but everything we do must flow from faith.

Let us act wisely, therefore, and in the fear of God.

Even if I knew the world was going to go to pieces I'd still plant an apple tree today

Works, since they are irrational things, cannot glorify God, although they may be done to the glory of God, if faith be present.

For as works do not make a believing man, so neither do they make a justified man; but faith, as it makes a man a believer and justified, so also it makes his works good.

The doers are much more enlightened in faith than the speculative, as even the philosopher says in his Metaphysics,75 that an experienced person acts more surely.

The Lord who has given us power to teach and to hear, let Him also give us the power to serve and to do.

Because love grows by works of love, and man becomes better;

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.