Quotes About Action

Some people worry that prayer may lead to passivity, that we will retreat to prayer as a substitute for action. Jesus saw no contradiction between the two: he spent long hours in prayer and then long hours meeting human needs.

The storm laid bare an unmistakable truth. More and more Christians have decided that the only way to reconquer America is through service. The faith no longer travels by the word. It moves by the deed.

My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Stanley Hauerwas, named "America's best theologian" by Time magazine, summed up the problem: "I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world." When a poll of college students asked

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

What would it look like if a Christian took literally Jesus' sweeping commands and acted on them. What would a Good Samaritan look like today, in urban America?

The world runs by ungrace. Everything depends on what I do.

I do not get to know God, then do God's will; I get to know God by doing that will.

We exercise faith by responding to the task that lies before us.

When we make condescending judgments, or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love — ?and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.

Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative. Instead of waiting for his neighbor to make the first move

He dithered but never dallied.

It is not love that matters, Mistress Boy, it is what you choose to do with it. What'd you choose to do with yours?

it is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop?

the greater the noise the less the deeds. And grand announcements do not mean great doings. Let

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it. —Maya Angelou

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

Submission and humility will not protect you from the injustices of this war. Nothing can. But clarity, and solidarity in action, will allow you to fight back - and to keep sane, no matter what happens.

Pour moi, peindre un tableau c'est engager une action dramatique au cours de laquelle la réalité se trouve déchirée. Ce drame l'emporte sur toute autre considération. L'acte plastique n'est que secondaire, en ce qui me concerne. Ce qui compte, c'est le drame de l'acte lui-même, le moment où l'univers s'échappe pour rencontrer sa propre destruction

Good intentions were not enough; they had to be rationally implemented.