Quotes about Action

faith acted upon in obedience brings the miraculous.

we are to teach the disciples to obey (do) everything Jesus commanded the twelve disciples to do. This is discipleship; not just studying the Bible,

We're all gonna become overweight sponges if we just soak up spiritual data and never get out into the world to be squeezed.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.