Quotes about Action

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Baptism is faith in action.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

Discipleship in the church today has more to do with consuming and absorbing cognitive content than it has anything to do with missional action.

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can.

One hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

Indeed our survival and liberation depend upon our recognition of the truth when it is spoken and lived by the people. If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth. To know the truth is to appropriate it, for it is not mainly reflection and theory. Truth is divine action entering our lives and creating the human action of liberation.

We must not think that action alone is successful Christ-following. In God's eyes, the motives behind our actions are of paramount importance. You can want a godly family or a successful career or a low handicap or a beautiful lawn, but if you want them for yourself and not the glory of God, it's a fail.

Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."

We know we are called to act like quality men with urgency that is governed by clarity in the strength of the Lord. What remains is this matter of love.