Quotes About Action

Faith is developed by meditating in God's Word and by acting on that Word. Meditating in the Word causes the capacity for faith to increase. By meditating in it and practicing it, the Word will produce the results of faith, love, healing, prosperity, wisdom and well-being in every area— spirit, soul and body.

often I ask them if they have ever acted as though the Word is so. People must act like the Scriptures are true. If they don't act like the Word is true, they are walking by what their senses are telling them and not by what the Bible says. That's what is throwing them off. They're missing the faith realm entirely, which is based on what the Word says, not on what they see or feel.

1. Say it. 2. Do it. 3. Receive it. 4. Tell it.

The Lord said, "You do the going, and I'll do the doing.

It works by getting convinced in your heart first. It won't work just by saying, "Well, I'm going to try that.

We're waiting on God, and He's waiting on us, and He won't do anything until we act.

2. Another type of unbelief is failure to be persuaded. The children of Israel knew they were to take the Promised Land, because God had said He had given it to them. But they could not be persuaded to act on His Word. There are many believers who are informed about God's Word, but they cannot be persuaded to act on it. This is unbelief. The cure for this particular kind of unbelief is obedience.

These moments move fast, if they are going to move at all, and with no superfluous nonsense. If they don't move, they die.

What have you done?' I whispered. She swallowed, and the guilt in her eyes was extinguished by a flare of defiance. 'This,' she said, 'is my ticket to outer space.'

Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean, and be it done with humility… A man is a sacred thing. ANY ACTION OR THOUGHT WHICH INJURES THE HUMAN IMAGINATION IS EVIL.

One executive suggests a discipline — putting down first what you want the reader to do, next the three most important things the reader needs to understand to take that action, then starting to write. When you're done, he suggests asking yourself whether if you were the reader, would you take action on the basis of what is written.

I've sat through far too many "crying in the beer" sessions where all the energy for change was dissipated in the intensity of the complaining. Once you see an idea for improvement that makes sense to you, do it.

that the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

bed and watch distant flashes of lightning illuminate the inside of giant, looming thunderheads six or seven miles high. The earth itself had ceased to be the prime element in my consciousness. This was a land of the sky, and every turn, every action, lifted the eye upward.

This is the process embodied in tragedy, where the agent's action involves a corresponding passion, and from the sufferance of the passion there arises an understanding of the act, an understanding that transcends the act. The act, in being an assertion, has called forth a counter-assertion in the elements that compose its context. And when the agent is enabled to see in terms of this counter-assertion, he has transcended the state that characterized him at the start.

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.

My administration has a job to do and we're going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

One of the important lessons of September the 11th, 2001 is that our country must deal with gathering threats before they materialize, before they come back to haunt us. And that's what we did in Iraq.

The unspoken words in the hearts of traumatized people reminding God to act to the evil of this World

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

If you put your hand into a fire, does anyone have to tell you to move it? Do you have to decide? No: When your hand starts to burn, it moves. You don't have to direct it; the hand moves itself. In the same way, once you understand, through inquiry, that an untrue thought causes suffering, you move away from it.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.