Quotes about Activity

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

Sewing: A creative mess is better than tidy idleness.

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

If a pastor's activity in the church is merely a once-a-week attempt to tow the congregation's cargo ship a little closer to eternity, the whole thing comes to nothing. A human life, unlike a cargo ship, cannot lie in the same place until the next Sunday.

seems to me that Christian dogmatics must be an explication of Christ's activity, the more so since Christ established no teaching but was active. He didn't teach that there was a redemption for man, he redeemed men. A Muhammadan dogmatics (sit venia verbo)21 would be an explication of Muhammad's teaching, but a Christian dogmatics is an explication of Christ's activity.

Time taken from family activity and business to seek God's blessing is never wasted.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Q: How do bunnies stay healthy? A: Egg-xercise!

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.